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kimbo
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kimbo asked in Food & DrinkVegetarian & Vegan · 1 decade ago

do vegans drink any alcoholic drinks and if so what ones as most of them are clarified using isinglass?

isinglass is made from the swimbladder of fish so what alternatives are there as a fish is an animal

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Yes. There are many that do not use isinglass in the fining process, or other animal ingredients. Some people keep lists online, such as this one http://www.barnivore.com/beer Use the links up the top to change from beer to liquor and wines. You can use search engines to find other lists as well. Or you can contact a company directly to ask.

  • lo_mcg
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Many beers and wines, though not spirits, are clarified/filtered using isinglass and other animal materials such as:

    Gelatine - from bones and connective tissues of cows or pigs

    Isinglass - obtained from fish swim bladders

    Chitin - derived from the shells of crabs or lobsters

    Casein - obtained from milk

    Albumin - from egg whites

    Ox Blood - though this is banned in Europe due to BSE

    There are vegan alternatives, such as bentonite which is a type of clay.

    Check out this site, which gives details of supermarket and other popular wines, beers, spirits, ciders, liquers, mixers etc, and tells you which are vegan, vegetarian or neither:

    http://www.veggiewines.co.uk/index.htm

  • 1 decade ago

    Distilled spirits are not filtered in any way, as they are the evaporation of the original base alcohol and wines now are filtered more through fine cloth filters, I went on a wine tour in France and have been to winery's here in Canada, they used to use clay, sawdust, sand and other methods to filter or treat the wine to reduce the sediment for bottling, it is an old wives tale about isinglass being used now, beer and alcohol in the first stages are filtered with cloth or paper filters to remove sediment, but not for bottling.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I think a more appropriate question is about yeast. Yeast is a living organism and it is used to make ANY and EVERY alcohol on the market - even spirits contrary to what a previous answer said. True vegans cannot drink alcohol.

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  • 1 decade ago

    I'm 16, so I don't actually drink. But I know Corona is vegan. So is Bulmer's pear, which I've heard some rather dodgy things about. It may be vegan but it is also a very powerful laxative.

  • 1 decade ago

    Maybe they do, but I have never heard of it. I can guarantee you that there are absolutely zero fish products in my home brew. I shudder to think, and I'm not a vegan. Just a beer drinker.

  • 1 decade ago

    I don't drink ciders as there are very few that i can.

    Spirits however are vegan such as vodka, or gin, as well as alcopops and stuff.

    Theres hardly any wines that are marked as vegan, and i can't really be bother to look them all up to see, so i tend to just stay away from them.

    Source(s): Vegan :)
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I believe that Carlsberg is vegan.

  • 1 decade ago

    I've never heard of such a thing in alcohol.

  • 1 decade ago

    I don't speak that.

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