Alright, so I'm normally pretty excited to do videos. This one has been thrown into my lap, and I have to do it. Today, we're asking the question, should tomato or mcallada be a meat? Let's get started. Okay, so first of all, what does mcallada or mcallada, wherever you want to call it, it is a tomato-based drink. Now, some of you guys are like, hmm, that doesn't sound bad. I mean, bloody marries are a thing. Like, I like that. I don't like those things. Here's my kind of horror story. Back when I turned 21, I went to get a drink from the gas station, and I found one of those big cans of, I think it's charlotta or mcallada, I don't know what it's called, but it's the tomato-based drink. Or colomato, that might be what it's called. Anyways, I had no idea what it was. I went for it, tried to drink it, and I about threw up. It was disgusting. Ever since then, everything that I taste that has this extremely tomato-heavy is not good. I can't really do like tomato soup, not a big fan of that. Definitely not tomato-based drinks. Until today, today we're asking the question, should this be a meat? This was kind of thrown into my lap. I reached out, or excuse me, am ready to reach out to me to chat a little bit, and they said, hey, we want to send you some stuff. They didn't tell me what they were sending. Next thing I know, this pops up on the door, and I'm looking at it going, oh crap. So I have to do something with it. So this is a 25.4, fluid ounces of mcallada flavoring. Here's my weird recipe. I'm going to try to make. It's going to be like a 3-quarter gallon. I don't have a lot of stock or hope for this brew, so full transparency. Here's my recipe. I don't know. I'm just going to mix some stuff up, and we're going to see what happens. Okay, this smells awful. I'm trying not to gag, and okay, uh, starting gravity. 1.078, I'm not even, I was thinking about tasting the must, but I don't know that I can. I'm just going to pitch our yeast. Don't ask me why I'm using sazon style alieast. I don't really know. Honestly, uh, it's just yeast that I found in my stuff I haven't used, so look this one. There's no logic behind this freaking mead, and there's no excitement in my heart for this mead. I am quite curious to see how this permits. Even though it's disgusting, curiosity is very, this is going to get me here. So, let's put, I'm going to put my, this is a silicone breathable bung on, and let's come back after the primary. All right, here we are. We are a grand total of 10 days later, since we started this, I just racked it over because this started to clear up. I could tell it's done fermenting. Everything started to settle at the bottom. I have only racked half a gallon off because I'll be real to you. I don't, the whole gallon thing doesn't entertain me. I don't think this is going to be very good. So, I'm losing a lot by choice. I racked it into this half gallon. If we started at 1.078, and we are currently at 1.0, 0, 0.0. Now you're probably wondering, what does this taste like? I'm wondering, but I'm also dreading. It definitely smells tomato-y, earthy. Here we go. Oh my god. That's spicy. Is that spicy? Oh my god. Holy. It has to have, that is like so spicy and not good. That's awful. It's so spicy. It's like peppery. I mean, I'm sure it has, must have that in it. Oh, like you've lost a lot of the tomato and it is pure spice. That's not good. Well, okay, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to leave it. It's only 10 days. Maybe there's hope for it? I'm not thinking there is, but I'm going to leave it let it set for a while. Maybe it'll start to clear up a little bit. Oh, we'll be back. All right, we're going to be done with this brew. Here's what I've done. I went ahead, let it set for a little bit, not clear necessarily, but again, I'm not investing too much into this brew. Sorry. It, I don't even think I stabilized it. I haven't even stabilized this thing, but let's assume that I have stabilized it. I went ahead and back-sweetened. So the new gravity is 1.020, started at 1.078, after primary 1.0 is 0, final gravity 1.020. I'm a little bit, I'll just go and spoil it on a little bit dumb. I should have looked up what's an amicolata before because I was talking about, oh my gosh, it's so spicy. Like, what the heck, that's so weird. Well, duh, it's spicy. Amicolata has, at least this is a recipe I found. One tablespoon of lime juice, four ounces of beer, four ounces of tomato juice, dash of hot sauce, dash of soy sauce, dash of teriyaki sauce, and dash of valsasher shire, fun word to say, sauce. So yeah, it's spicy, and I was pretty dumb. So it naturally makes sense. The four ounces of honey I added here will hopefully combat some of that spice. I could have very well used way too much, the flavoring in general, which I've lost it. Let's go ahead and taste it and decide if this should be, I mean. The heat is tempered down from the honey. Got some sweetness, but it's still hot. Grabbing me right here. Not... It's not good, but I know I have a little bit of bias in this, and I don't do a lot of tomato-based drinks or soups or stuff like that. So someone else might really enjoy this. I think this, I might have used too much because it's so spicy. I mean, there's a lot of heat here. The tomato is somewhat there. I get some, um, like celery-like flavors as well, which is in there. I, uh, personally, here's what I think. I don't like this. I don't think it's good. I would not, and I will not, make this again. However, that's not to say that you, as somebody watching this, should not try something like this. Tomato-based things are weird. This is just a funky recipe. So, should this be a need for me? No. Should this be a need for you? Maybe. I don't know if you like this stuff. I want to know down below, though. Comment, would you like something like this? Is this something that would be interesting to you? Or seems good? We'll see. Comment below. I've had a lot of fun with this. I have a bunch of other, like, should it be a need episodes? Most have been candy so far. This is the first one that's branched out at the candy realm. Uh, so we have something new. But I've had a lot of fun. I hope you've enjoyed this video. My next step for this. I'll just be very honest with you. I might bottle A bottle of it, but then the rest is probably going to go away and disappear forever. And not in a drinking way. So, uh, I'll probably keep one bottle. We'll see if it ages any, but I'm not. Not the biggest fan. If you have other ideas for, should it be a mead? Go ahead and leave those down below. And I will see you in a future video. Let me drink my sparkling water. Cheers.