Wine Lovers would dare to try this: Snake Wine

 Wine has been considered as the most stimulating beverage throughout the world. It lits up your evening to worth cherishing. But this world is full of surprises. The Southeastern part of Asia likes the taste of a kind of wine on which the maximum part of the world will frown.  The Snake Wine is such a drink mostly famous in different part of Japan, Vietnam, Hong Kong and China.

Snake wine has been consumed in China from Zhou dynasty, mainly treated as a medicinal liquor. Snake wine is also known as 'Habushu' in Japan because a deadly snake name Habu is used in this drink. The buyer can get a full length of Habu Snake inside a beautiful wine bottle.

The Making:

The process of making the drink may seem utterly disturbing to people but the south Asians must enjoy it. It can be made using two techniques. The primary ingredients of the wine is rice and obviously a lengthy venomous snake.

• The maker can simply drown the  poor creature, (well, not so poor because Habu snake bite can cause nausea, hypo-tension, vomiting or possibly death) into the alcohol and seize to death. This whole process occurs when the snake is alive.
• In the second method, the snakes are kept on ice until it passes out and then its gutted out, bled and swed. when the snake is awaken they die an aggressive death, which is kinda success for the makers. After one month of preservation in ethanol, they are put into the mixture of alcohol and awamori. Now the Habushu is ready to gulp.
• The third procedure is totally insane where a living snake is cut on spot and its blood and bile are mixed in the alcohol and drink the shot at once.

Is it safe to drink?

A huge question mark takes a shape on our eye brows when it comes to the safety of this wine's consumption. South Asian people ingest this like a medicinal drink that keeps them warm. Habu snake has 23 hours at a stretch meting strength, local myth is that, it can cure sexual dysfunction and give aphrodisiac virility.

Fun-facts

I don't know whether it is fun or an awful fact; some times the snake can be alive inside of the wine bottle inspite of several months of preservation. In 2013 an news spread all over the internet saying, a women got bitten while drinking the snake wine.

Is it Legal?

Several adventuresome tourists like to take snake wine as souvenir from these countries. Carrying snake wines to the USA or UK is comes under offence cause it involves animal cruelty.