Snake wine is an alcoholic beverage that includes a whole venomous snake  in the bottle. It originated in Vietnam and can be found around  Southeast Asia. The snakes, preferably venomous ones, are usually not  preserved for their meat.
They are preserved to have the snake poison dissolved in the liquor.  However, because snake venom is protein-based, they are unfolded and  therefore inactivated due to the influence of the denaturing effects of  ethanol. 
A large venomous snake can be placed into a glass jar of rice wine,  often with many smaller snakes, turtles, insects, or birds, and left to  steep for many months. The wine is drunk as a restorative in small shots  or cups.
Body fluids of snake are mixed into wine and consumed immediately in the  form of a shot. Snake blood wine is prepared by slicing a snake along  its belly and draining its blood into a mixing vat with rice wine or  grain alcohol. Snake bile wine is done through a similar method by using  the contents of the gall bladder. Snake meat, liver, and skin can be  prepared to accompany the drinks 






 



 
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