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#1 chumbaporkins Oct 17, 2010 19:44:47	What ideas do you think would make sense for replicating broy? Someone within my game suggested mixing honey, salt water, and tequila.
#2 phoffman Oct 17, 2010 19:58:59	I feel that mead might be the safest bet to go for something like broy that would be palpable at the game table.
#3 chumbaporkins Oct 17, 2010 20:02:26	Mead is a good option. But we are trying to best represent the vile taste of fermented Kank nectar.
#4 Alphastream Oct 18, 2010 10:35:17	Kombucha might work well. Non-alcoholic, but it packs a punch taste-wise and will mimic something that is alcoholic due to the fermentation flavor.
#5 slam-evil Oct 19, 2010 11:00:24	Kombucha! Oh man, thats actually pretty good. It works because my roommate actually makes his own kombucha, which might make it even gnarlier than the store bought stuff. Our other idea was to mix tequilla and aloe juice, thinking that would be very appropriately deserty.
#6 baronspam Oct 19, 2010 23:03:18	I second the Mead idea.  Kank nectar is basically funky honey.  Its made by big bugs, in the non-domesticated version, to feed their young. If you want something that would actually be pleasant to drink, go with mead. If you want something intentionally nasty, consider mead with a Absinthe chaser, or perhaps a shot of Absinthe mixed in.  The DSCG says that broy is heavily flavored with herbs to mask its unpleasant flavor, and I don't know if you could find more of an aquired taste than Absinthe in the world of alcohol.  It certainly is herb flavored.  The versions you can find in the U.S. have to be Thujone free, which some claim causes the drink to lack the mild psychotropic effects of the european version.  But in terms if flavor, it should still taste like a half giant rinsed his but with nyquil, just like our european friend's version.
#7 Sysane Oct 20, 2010 15:24:55	Buy some Sam Adams Honey Porter, let it go flat, and serve it at room tempature.
#8 jlwfnord Oct 25, 2010 13:52:56	If you actually want to *make* it, and not just come up with some mixed-drink analogue, I'd do this. I really like the tequila suggestion, but I'd want to use the base ingredient - blue agave. See if you can get a source of blue agave - Costco sells bottles of it as a sweetener. Make a mead with half-and-half blue agave and honey. Either hop the wort with your favorite hops (I use Hallertau for everything I brew but, you know, whatever, Hallertau is apparently kind of weaksauce hops for light and wheat beers, so you're probably fine using whatever you can get your hands on) or put some kind of spice in it (cinnamon. cloves. citrus peel. something. whatever. go look at the old Dune Trader supplement and use an appropriate spice for the originating city). You want to do this because you're going to want to drink this pretty fast, and the simple honey flavor doesn't properly mature into a complex aroma and finish, or whatnot, in a mead for many many months. Broy is supposed to be vile anyway, so you wouldn't have to wait too long before inflicting this on your players; if you made it beer-strength (so, about 6 pounds of sweetener in your 5 gallon batch of fermentable) it would probably be ready in a month; if you made it mead strength (about 15 pounds of sweetener in 5 gallons), it would probably be ready in about three months. I would definitely want to use a white wine yeast or a champagne yeast, though. I feel like if you use a beer yeast for this you'd just be making a funky beer, and broy definitely seems like a mead. (I just finished a braggot - half-beer, half-mead, beer strength hopped beverage. It is ... pretty reminiscent of what broy seems like it is supposed to taste like, unfortunately. It was absolutely undrinkable for the first month or so and then became vaguely tolerable - about the only thing it is missing IMO is the characteristic whatever that makes kank honey kank honey and not bee honey.)
#9 wizardofwor Oct 29, 2010 10:02:07	perhaps Pulque?