[HN Gopher] The Battle to Bottle Palm Wine (2021)
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The Battle to Bottle Palm Wine (2021)
Author : prmph
Score : 9 points
Date : 2025-05-10 14:05 UTC (3 days ago)
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| jollyllama wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipah_virus_infection#Preventi...
| xnx wrote:
| > 50% to 75% of those infected die
|
| Whoa
| howard941 wrote:
| What is it about bats that makes them vectors for so many
| maladies? EDITED to remove spurious ref to rodents
| neaden wrote:
| A big thing is that Bats have a really weird metabolism,
| during their day it can dip down to 50 Fahrenheit and then go
| up to 104 F at night when they are active. This can mean they
| end up carrying a lot of diseases but not dying/showing
| symptoms of them. They also have very strong DNA repair
| compared to other mammals. Then in addition many bats are
| very social and sleep in big groups, which means the disease
| can spread throughout the bat population.
|
| Edit: Finally and relevantly they can come in close contact
| with people by coming into our homes, or people going into
| theirs. This can let the disease cross over.
| thaumasiotes wrote:
| > Bats have a really weird metabolism, during their day it
| can dip down to 50 Fahrenheit and then go up to 104 F at
| night when they are active. This can mean they end up
| carrying a lot of diseases but not dying/showing symptoms
| of them.
|
| What is the connection between these two ideas?
| system7rocks wrote:
| I am very intrigued as local, culturally specific
| wines/beers/fermentation speak so much to our creativity and
| community as human beings.
|
| But thanks for the heads up about Nipah Virus! Wow!
| decimalenough wrote:
| Not mentioned is one more part of the battle: toddy is considered
| a low-class drink for rowdy workers, and tightly regulated
| accordingly. This guy has been battling Singaporean bureaucracy
| for six years now just to be allowed to import it from
| neighboring Malaysia:
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| https://www.ricemedia.co/one-mans-quest-to-revive-toddy-the-...
| Our_Benefactors wrote:
| What's the average ABV of palm wine?
| a_t48 wrote:
| Ever since seeing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6skjbVDVEg4 my
| wife has been trying to find a way of importing it to make the
| dish herself
| dluan wrote:
| This story is from 2021 so I wonder how those startups are faring
| now. For a while molecular alcohol was the hot thing, with
| startups like Endless West raising a lot of VC to try and
| shortcut aging.
| comrade1234 wrote:
| I used to travel to India a lot and would have this when staying
| with friends in Hyderabad, flies and all. My friend would send
| one of his servants out in the morning to buy it for us. The way
| he explained it - someone would climb the palm tree in the
| evening, make cuts in a place where the liquid would leak out and
| pool, then there would be fermentation overnight (bacterial, not
| yeast), and then they collect it on the morning.
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| It reminded me of a drink here in Switzerland made during grape
| harvest and also bacterial fermentation. Also sour cider in the
| babe region but that's much more sophisticated.
|
| This palm juice alcohol is very primitive and probably something
| monkeys drank.
| comrade1234 wrote:
| Basque region, not bape region.
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