How do you take your Sake?

Sherardp
Sherardp Posts: 8,038
edited February 2012 in The Clubhouse
Cheers and holiday greetings. With Thanksgiving this week, Christmas is just around the corner. With that said, I'm going to offer a nice bottle of Habu Sake. This sake is like no other, as it is exclusively made on the island of Okinawa, Japan. The sake is Awamori , and does contain the deadly Habu snake inside it's contents. The venom of the snake dissolves into the alcohol so it will not harm you. If you prefer to have the sake without the snake in the bottle please let me know before I ship this. To be in you must have at least 300 posts, non alcoholic ( sorry I had someone try to eat the damn snake once and almost die from it), and say " I like my sake with deadly venom". As a bonus I will throw in a nice Sake set made in Japan as a Christmas present for you to open. All items will be insured as the Sake is $200.00 - $2000 a bottle( expensive but you are worth it). If you decide not to open it upon winning, no problem use it as a display for family and friends.

For those who are interested in how it's made, see more here:

Habu sake (which is actually Awamori alcohol mixed with herbs, honey, and a big snake) is a liquor that came to Japan from China, where the snake is known for its medicinal properties, Habu Sake is good for back problems and arthritis because it has 19 amino acids beneficial to humans, and also the snake poison dissolved in the alcohol gives to this liquor some special properties.

To make habu sake or Snake wine you need a habu which is a snake species found in Japan that must be put on ice until it is half-asleep, then you must drain of some of it's blood and sew it up.

Afterwards the snake will wake up and finish its life in an attacking position that a lot of habu manufacturers look for when they subsequently throw the habu in a nice ethanol bath to preserve it.

The habus are left to soak for a month and then transferred to a 59% alcohol mix for 40 days before being placed in a 35% awamori.

In Japan the beverage is awamori and when it has a yummy poisonous pit viper in it it?s called habushu (literally, poisonous East Asian pit viper liquor).


Please don't try to eat the snake guys, I will not be held responsible for madness. Good luck gents. Pics included so you see what you get, Sake set may vary in design. Your in for a tasty treat.

Karma will end December 10, 2011.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,417
    edited November 2011
    " I like my sake with deadly venom". Hell yea in please
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  • muncybob
    muncybob Posts: 3,039
    edited November 2011
    I like my sake with deadly venom

    I don't even remember if I like sake, but I'm in for the coolness factor here...great Karma!
    I'll write a review on how effective it is for arthritis and perhaps how much is needed to induce a hangover :)
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  • Disc Jockey
    Disc Jockey Posts: 1,013
    edited November 2011
    This is one interesting karma. " I like my sake with deadly venom" I really can't offer anything to match on the culinary end but if I should win, I will send a very nice stein or stein set to a second place drawing winner of your choosing.
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited November 2011
    I like my sake with deadly venom
    "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • Drenis
    Drenis Posts: 2,871
    edited November 2011
    I like my sake with deadly venom

    That is just flippin' cool.
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  • Sherardp
    Sherardp Posts: 8,038
    edited November 2011
    Disc Jockey wrote: »
    This is one interesting karma. " I like my sake with deadly venom" I really can't offer anything to match on the culinary end but if I should win, I will send a very nice stein or stein set to a second place drawing winner of your choosing.

    That's awesome, thank you.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited November 2011
    Uhhh...just an FYI for those of you in the States, check your state's liquor laws before you say in. Quite a few states will not allow you to mail booze of any kind in or out of the state. NJ is one of them. Dunno how it is for other states but in NJ, they will intercept your package and confiscate it and may not even tell you they did so.

    Would suck to win a bottle of expensive booze only to have it land on some postal clerk's kitchen table rather then your mantle where it was intended.

    That said, nice karma but I'm out since I live in NJ.
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  • Sherardp
    Sherardp Posts: 8,038
    edited November 2011
    Jstas wrote: »
    Uhhh...just an FYI for those of you in the States, check your state's liquor laws before you say in. Quite a few states will not allow you to mail booze of any kind in or out of the state. NJ is one of them. Dunno how it is for other states but in NJ, they will intercept your package and confiscate it and may not even tell you they did so.

    Would suck to win a bottle of expensive booze only to have it land on some postal clerk's kitchen table rather then your mantle where it was intended.

    That said, nice karma but I'm out since I live in NJ.

    No worries John I should be able to get it to any winner no problem. I will consider you in if your interested.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited November 2011
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited November 2011
    I like my sake with deadly venom. IN!

    I had some of this years ago and completely blacked out. Sign me up again please.
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  • inspiredsports
    inspiredsports Posts: 5,501
    edited November 2011
    This is freaking coincidentally awesome! I will be putting my wife on a plane headed for Okinawa (where her dad was stationed during the Vietnam era and she attended High School) on 12/1. My wife, her brothers and their full-bird Colonel father are squeezing in a visit in economical officer's billeting before the US gives our bases there back to Japan next year.

    She always tells the stories of how her family worried their pet housecat would be killed by a habu whenever the cat escaped outdoors.

    I like my sake with deadly venom. IN!
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  • halo71
    halo71 Posts: 4,602
    edited November 2011
    " I like my sake with deadly venom" VERY cool Karm!

    My Dad worked for American Rice Corp. for many years. He used to bring back a bottle of Sake every now and then. Not sure of the brand or quality though.
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  • punk-roc
    punk-roc Posts: 1,150
    edited November 2011
    I like my sake with deadly venom !!

    Very cool!

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  • Polkitup2
    Polkitup2 Posts: 1,622
    edited November 2011
    " I like my sake with deadly venom", high cool factor here! IN!
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  • cincycat13
    cincycat13 Posts: 882
    edited November 2011
    I like my sake with deadly snake venom - way cool factor
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,716
    edited November 2011
    "I like my sake with deadly venom"

    Very cool kharma ! Usually have to wait for an anniversary/celebration of some sort to be invited to Kobe to partakeof Sake. Like mine warm which, from what I understand, is the way peasants drink their cheap sake ... which is only appropriate, I guess. :redface:

    Very nice kharma.
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  • DMara
    DMara Posts: 1,434
    edited November 2011
    I like my sake with deadly venom!!!
    Great Karma :mrgreen:
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,957
    edited November 2011
    Very cool, count me in baby. I like my Sake with deadly venom for sure......women not so much.
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  • bruss
    bruss Posts: 1,039
    edited November 2011
    man thats way cool.. I like my sake with deadly venom
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,007
    edited November 2011
    I like my sake with deadly venom. (in please)
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,726
    edited November 2011
    I like my sake with deadly venom.

    Awesome karma, I have a room with a bunch of Japanese art and swords that this would look great it!
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  • mark090852
    mark090852 Posts: 996
    edited November 2011
    Oh wow! What a fantastic and unique karma! I like my sake with deadly venom. I am in.
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited November 2011
    Most off-the-wall karma to date... :cool:
    Sherardp wrote: »
    ... Habu Sake is good for back problems and arthritis because it has 19 amino acids beneficial to humans, and also the snake poison dissolved in the alcohol gives to this liquor some special properties.
    Normally I like my sake in a leaky, wood box-cup to minimize the amount that makes it to my mouth, but since this one has medicinal value I guess...

    I like my sake with deadly venom...
    More later,
    Tour...
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  • Dawgfish
    Dawgfish Posts: 2,554
    edited November 2011
    Now this is cool! I like my sake with deadly venom. In please.
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  • Sherardp
    Sherardp Posts: 8,038
    edited November 2011
    Wow, glad to see you guys interested. I was celebrating Turkey Day yesterday, so I was unable to check in on it. If you guys have any questions let me know.
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  • mrbiron
    mrbiron Posts: 5,711
    edited November 2011
    Awesome Karma.
    Not in as sake isn't my cup my tea....HEYO!
    I would fear for the cat knocking over the bottle and the little lady freaking out about a snake in the house!
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  • Sherardp
    Sherardp Posts: 8,038
    edited February 2012
    Guys I'm going to have to cancel this one, due to some new restrictions with the Post Office. I used to be able to pull off sending this stuff, but I guess people are losing their postal privileges with exporting items that aren't to be shipped. When working for the gov, it's a privilege to have a postal box on the military base, not a right so they told us. I'll have to make this one up to you all. Apologies.
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited February 2012
    Are Geisha's considered contraband? :cheesygrin:
    More later,
    Tour...
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