MTN: Two Powdered Milks...(short/boring)

WINE TALK
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Tried these two over the weekend:

  1. Kroger Instant non-fat Dry Milk: Did not dissolve well; lumpy; white color w/ some crunchy topping; very light slight milky nose; soft rather bland/milky bit grainy/gritty flavor; very long rather milky some chalky/gritty bit watery simple/bland finish; pleasant enough but badly needs butterfat; no earthly reason to use this product.
  1. Saubota Camel Milk Natural Dry Milk Powder (One Belt/One Road; www.Saumal.Kz; German Technology; 100% natural; ZollmannStutenmilch GmbH) Eurasia Invest/Karaganda/Kazakhstan: Dissolves readily; white slightly gray color; light milky/earthy nose; light bit tart milky bit earthy/gamey/sauvage bit complex flavor; med.long light milky/earthy/gamey rather watery finish; could not tell that this came from a camel or different animal; slightly more coarse/gamey/sauvage character; needs butterfat; no earthly reason to use this product.

A wee BloodyPulpit:

  1. In the CortiBros Fall newsletter; Darrell offered up both dehydrated camel & mare’s milk from Kazakhstan. First time this product has been imported into the USofA. And of course it would be CortiBros. How could I possibly resist? So I ordered the camel’s milk. And thought I should compare it to cow’s milk from the good ole USofA.
    Neither of these hold a candle to real milk w/ butter fat; both were rather thin/watery and badly needed butterfat; the camel’s milk was distinctly more interesting and lacked the high-toned character of the cow’s milk. But I cannot think of any earthly reason one would want to use either of these products. I tried adding a bit of cream…but that could not salvage these two milks. A rare clunker from CortiBros. Totally unable to pick up any Kazakhstan terroir.
    Tom (taking one for the team)
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This is great!

Notes about tired CA syrahs from the ‘90s is one thing …

But who can resist a report about camel’s milk?

I’m surprised you didn’t pick up any “lactic” notes!

Your idiosyncratic tastes and dry humor are appreciated here.

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Could you taste the hump?

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An MTN! Fantastic, Tom!

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Never realized my milk was high toned! pepsi

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I once tasted fresh camel’s milk, still warm. It was delicious and much richer than cow’s.

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Tom - love it!

Here is a little more context (and one earthly reason) for your wee Bloody pulpit consideration.
In Long Beach, CA there is a doctor that has been very successful in treating serious milk (and all other food) allergies. For milk allergies it can be a slow process that often starts with mare’s milk and/or camels milk before working up to goat and then cow.

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Tom has followed camels from the start…

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Vintage kumis, the next frontier…

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The powdered milk will give me nightmares. I developed problems with powdered milk in 1954 in Alaska and compounded it with recombined powdered milk from the commissary in Japan in 1959. The difference was eating cereal with water and eating cereal with water and chalk. It was better with water.

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This post has Hall of Fame written all over it…

Kudos!

Hal