Seaweed wine
Seaweed wine is a wine-like drink obtained by fermentation of algae produced.
discovery
Marine biologists from Kiel discovered by chance that a long-stored algae extract that had been exposed to oxygen was reminiscent of sherry and wine in terms of color and smell . After three years of development, further experiments led to the world's first algae wine.
Manufacturing
The brown algae used for the drink are grown in the Baltic Sea at a depth of 6–10 m. The algae are fermented, mashed and fermented, mixed with bacteria and yeast cultures, for twelve months in large tanks at room temperature. The finished algae wine has an alcohol content of 11 to 13 percent. From a technical point of view, it is a wine - under food law, however, the drink may not be called wine , because according to current EU law, only drinks may be brought onto the market under the trade name wine if they are made from grapes . The official name is currently "Algae-based alcoholic drink". As a completely new food , it also falls under the Novel Food Regulation.
marketing
The product is marketed by the Kiel company Ocean Wellness , which also operates an algae farm. Algae wine is currently not to be marketed nationwide, so it can only be purchased in the Kiel area.
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Algae wine from the Baltic Sea" on www.welt.de on 4 July 2006, Retrieved on August 5, 2016
- ↑ "Out of the Baltic Sea, into the wine glass" at www.stern.de on July 16, 2006, accessed on August 5, 2016
- ↑ "The Wine from the Sea" at www.süddeutsche.de on May 10, 2010, accessed on August 5, 2016