Have You Tried Vegan Wine?Vegan wine? Really? Yep.
While wine and beer doesn't have any animal products in the actual ingredients, they are often processed with them. The most common products are casein, albumen, chitosan, egg whites, isinglass, gelatine, and dried blood powder. Gross, right?
Well, these ingredients help clarify, filter, refine, and generally produce wines and beers. Of course, there's a very small amount of animal products in regular wines, but strict vegans care about how food products are processed.
Instead of the animal ingredients, vegan vinters use bentonite clay to refine their wines.
The best way to figure out how the wines are produced is to ask the wine maker. Now, the average person doesn't have access to wine makers, but many wine stores keep track of which wines are vegetarian-friendly. Here's a great little pocket guide to vegan-friendly wine that you can carry with you when you are headed to the wine store.
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