Vegemite Used To Brew Alcohol In Remote Communites

[icyfroth]

The Prime Minister has warned against a ban on Vegemite in remote communities after reports the spread was being used to make home-brewed alcohol, saying the last thing he wanted was a "Vegemite watch".

A spokeswoman for Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion said the minister heard reports the popular spread was being used to concoct home brew in some dry Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory.

"Addiction of any type is a concern but communities, especially where alcohol is banned, must work to ensure home brewing of this type does not occur," Mr Scullion said in a statement.

The minister stopped short of placing restrictions or bans on the sale of the spread or other yeast-based products in such communities.

Tony Abbott quashed the idea of a ban.

"This is a deregulatory Government and the last thing I want to do is to have a Vegemite watch ... because Vegemite, quite properly, is for most people a reasonably nutritious spread on your morning toast or on your sandwiches," he said.

"What's important is that we ensure that remote communities, all communities, are being properly policed."

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OMG! I can't imagine what it tastes like. Apparently you mix Vegemite with orange juice. The yeast in Vegemite gets the fermentation process going.

Apparently it does the job lol.

[the_great_she_elephant]

In Queensland, where there are 15 dry Indigenous communities, far north region crime coordinator Geoff Marsh said police were aware that homebrewers using the yeast in Vegemite to produce alcohol had “done it for years”.

If they were "aware" of this then they were misinformed, weren't they, because it has been demonstrated that it is impossible to use the yeast in vegemite to produce alcohol.

[the_great_she_elephant]

So QLD crime co-ordinator Geoff Marsh and a QLD Headmaster from one of the schools in the Indigenous community there are lying, then, are they?

No, not lying, but, as I said, clearly  misinformed. (or perhaps you prefer to believe that all those who say the yeast in Vegemite cannot be used to produce alcohol are lying)

[icyfroth]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

In Queensland, where there are 15 dry Indigenous communities, far north region crime coordinator Geoff Marsh said police were aware that homebrewers using the yeast in Vegemite to produce alcohol had “done it for years”.

If they were "aware" of this then they were misinformed, weren't they, because it has been demonstrated that it is impossible to use the yeast in vegemite to produce alcohol.

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Well, granted, they probably went with the general assumpion that the yeast was the fermentation agent, which we've since found out it is not. They probably didn't bother to google it lol.

But it's still possible to make beer with vegemite as we've seen in the articles in previous posts. So they were quite right in their assertions in saying that homebrew had been made using vegemite.

[icyfroth]

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No, not lying, but, as I said, clearly  misinformed. (or perhaps you prefer to believe that all those who say the yeast in Vegemite cannot be used to produce alcohol are lying)

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I have no such preference! Why would you insinuate that?

[icyfroth]

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@debra9275 wrote:

To make alcohol from vegemite. You would have to add yeast and sugar to it.. The same as with fruit etc. you can't make alcohol from just Vegemite on it's own

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well...no. That was never stated. lol

Apparently they add orange juice. It contains sugar.

That was said in the first post. 

[debra9275]

But according to all the scientists that doesn't work... You,would also have to add yeast because the yeast in Vegemite is inactive..... That was in most of the articles posted. Including yours didn't you read them?

[tezza2844]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@debra9275 wrote:

No argument  from me 🙂

just quoting some of the facts published in the article you posted. It's worth a read right through I don't dispute anything they've said, it backs up everything else about how  difficult or impossible it is to make alcohol out of Vegemite  🙂

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yes it backs up that ppl have made home brew from it, and that it can be done.

And that it might be implausible that communites in NT do, but it's quite probable and has been known to happen according to far north region crime coordinator Geoff Marsh and One former school principal with decades of experience teaching in north Queensland Indigenous communities :

In Queensland, where there are 15 dry Indigenous communities, far north region crime coordinator Geoff Marsh said police were aware that homebrewers using the yeast in Vegemite to produce alcohol had “done it for years”.

“But there are a lot of products that contain yeast and it’s all a bit of a beat up. We’re not overly concerned about it at all in our position,” he told Guardian Australia.

One former school principal with decades of experience teaching in north Queensland Indigenous communities told Guardian Australia he first became aware of Vegemite used in brewing alcohol in the 1990s but this had since been eclipsed by an even unlikelier method – orange juice filtered through nappies.

So to call it not true is simply...well...not rue.

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Wow.  you can make alcohol using Vegemite which has no usable live yeast (apparently you have to add active yeast) and now you can make alcohol by filtering orange juice through nappies. Do you use cloth or paper nappies, I presume (hope) they are unused nappies. I guess  the next alcohol making method will be making Scotch Whisky by filtering some strange concoction through a Scotchtsmans  sporran

[icyfroth]

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@tezza2844 wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@debra9275 wrote:

No argument  from me 🙂

just quoting some of the facts published in the article you posted. It's worth a read right through I don't dispute anything they've said, it backs up everything else about how  difficult or impossible it is to make alcohol out of Vegemite  🙂

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yes it backs up that ppl have made home brew from it, and that it can be done.

And that it might be implausible that communites in NT do, but it's quite probable and has been known to happen according to far north region crime coordinator Geoff Marsh and One former school principal with decades of experience teaching in north Queensland Indigenous communities :

In Queensland, where there are 15 dry Indigenous communities, far north region crime coordinator Geoff Marsh said police were aware that homebrewers using the yeast in Vegemite to produce alcohol had “done it for years”.

“But there are a lot of products that contain yeast and it’s all a bit of a beat up. We’re not overly concerned about it at all in our position,” he told Guardian Australia.

One former school principal with decades of experience teaching in north Queensland Indigenous communities told Guardian Australia he first became aware of Vegemite used in brewing alcohol in the 1990s but this had since been eclipsed by an even unlikelier method – orange juice filtered through nappies.

So to call it not true is simply...well...not rue.

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Wow.  you can make alcohol using Vegemite which has no usable live yeast (apparently you have to add active yeast) and now you can make alcohol by filtering orange juice through nappies. Do you use cloth or paper nappies, I presume (hope) they are unused nappies. I guess  the next alcohol making method will be making Scotch Whisky by filtering some strange concoction through a Scotchtsmans  sporran

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Well Tezza that would be a fun experiment. Why don't you try it out?

[tezza2844]

I'm not a Scotchman

[icyfroth]

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@debra9275 wrote:

But according to all the scientists that doesn't work... You,would also have to add yeast because the yeast in Vegemite is inactive..... That was in most of the articles posted. Including yours didn't you read them?

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well...no you don't have to add yeast because the once the sugar (orange juice)  and the organic (vegemite)  come together they create their own fermentation process.