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8mo ago

Pizza Hut Is Now Offering a 'Tomato Wine'

www.foodandwine.com

Pizza Hut Is Now Offering a 'Tomato Wine'

At last.

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This is great, they found a use for their pizza sauce that fermented.
- Definitely enough sugar in THAT.
Tomato wine is ketchup.
- Not exactly. Tomatoes are the world's largest berries, considered a fruit in botany.
  Ketchup has vinegar in it. A properly brewed wine won't have vinegar.
  
  Aren't bananas berries, too?
  
  Wine can become vinegar.
I prefer potato wine. And by wine I mean distilled spirits. And by distilled spirits, I mean vodka. I could do with a potato wine tonic right now.
- Same! I’m out though here at home. If I ever met you in public, I’d buy you a vodka neat, on the rocks, soda, or with any mixer of your choice.
  
  Why thank you. Tonic is definitely my first choice if it's just one mixer, although my go-to drink is usually a bloody Mary.
- Lemon drop martini is my way to drink vodka!
So... kind of like a bloody mary?
Fuck! It’s all sold out :(
Do tomatoes even have enough sugar to ferment into a usable amount of alcohol without "spiking" the juice first?
- Probably not. We used to dabble with brewing our own wines, and almost everything we tried still needed like a half a pound of sugar or more per 5 gallon jug.
- There's a vineyard in Door County Wisconsin (the peninsula on Lake Michigan) that makes wine out of blackberries and blueberries and such. Even those get an extra shot of sugar added before fermentation.
  It's hard to match the sugar content of wine grapes. We've been tuning those varietals for a long time.
- you gotta convert the starches to sugar using pectin
Mmmm, Tomato wine with a pineapple wedge...
- Maybe a breadstick too?
  
  Definitely. They should have provided a pairing guide with it lol.
So should this be served warm?

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