Would you drink alcohol with maggots in?

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Made some cherry bourbon with cherries from our garden. I did check for maggots as a de-stoned them but a few escaped me and are currently sitting in the bottom of the demi-john. The next step is to strain it, which will get rid of them, but they've obviously already been sat in there.

Would you drink it or chuck it?

If it makes a difference we've been eating the cherries so have probably eaten some maggots too (they are tiny). But we'd be offering the bourbon to friends in cocktails.

I'd chuck it, although the counter argument to that is tequila.

Tequila.
I don't remember much but I wasn't arsed about the maggot

Chuck up and then chuck out.

You should market it as a new fashion drink

As a veggie - no. But can’t you buy tequila with something wriggly in it?

Na, pickled maggot wouldn't bother me. Just take them out.

I'd honestly not worry in the slightest. They're long dead and were in the original fruit, it's not like it's gone off and got maggots.

The alcohol content will have long killed germs. And they aren't poisonous anyway they just squick us out for valid reasons.

I'd strain and drink and think no more of it!

I'd discreetly dispose of them and try to forget about it... we get them in our plum tree and while they're unpleasant they aren't the same kind of maggots that live in rotting meat etc, they won't do you any harm.

No.

From the title I was "how did that happen, no way", but having read the message, actually, strain it and drink it!
Its not that the booze has gone off, but that there were some crawlies in the fruit. Go for it.

That is vile.

I couldn’t OP. Sorry

This makes me think of donoghue v Stevens and I honestly don’t think I could stomach it

The maggots had a happy death and the booze is sterile, don't waste it send it to me

It's pretty desperate

The straining is part of the process rather than to get rid of the maggots, though it does also do that.

And yes, the maggots are tiny and very different from the rotting food type (the fruit wasn't rotten).

CherryPlum why is it desperate? I'm not drinking it tonight, I'm making cherry bourbon for future cocktail making.

I would have absolutely no problem drinking that.

I would drink it but I have eaten ants eggs in the past. Such things are delicacies in some parts of the world.

Isn't wine often strained with fish guts or something similar?

dreichuplands yep. And beer. Isinglass is it's technical name. I'll just be using a conical sieve and muslin though!

Yes I would.

I bet most of the horrified ones eat prawns and meat. The maggots are at least vegetarian alcoholics.

I'd not be fussed one bit.

Just to be really clear the maggots would be gone when it was drunk! They won't be consumed.

Wouldn't bother me in the slightest,especially if they were all gone.