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Please don't try to nail me to the wall on this question...beaver meat...

RRP
RRP Posts: 26,455
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Tonight I was watching Discovery' s program  entitled Alaska - the Last Wild Frontier. At the beginning the guys trapped/killed/skinned a beaver...then they cooked and ate the beaver meat. Please don't laugh at me...this is an HONEST SINCERE question...have you ever eaten a beaver and what in your opinion did it taste like? 
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  • Sardonicus
    Sardonicus Posts: 1,700
    OMG
    "Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and barbecuing."      - George Burns

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  • GATraveller
    GATraveller Posts: 8,207
    Too many jokes.......sensory overload!! 

    I've never eaten true Beaver meat.

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  • bcsnave
    bcsnave Posts: 1,009

      I heard it taste like chicken.....personally I think its a bit fishy tasting ;)

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  • blasting
    blasting Posts: 6,262

    Is it Friday night already?  Could have sworn it was Sunday.

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  • Sardonicus
    Sardonicus Posts: 1,700
    edited October 2015
    Thank goodness Al Gore invented Google!  And YouTube.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nweK6VRM8a8

    "Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and barbecuing."      - George Burns

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  • clifkincaid
    clifkincaid Posts: 572
    I don't always eat Beaver
    But when I do..It's shaved clean!
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  • Hunter1881
    Hunter1881 Posts: 406
    So not sure I want to touch this. However I used to do some trapping on family land. Frequently after trapping one my uncle would skin it and BBQ it. He said it had a beef like taste. I know it is tough to skin. 
    Henderson TN. 1 large BGE, 1 Webber Gasser (recently seems to have converted into a warming oven)
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  • Fred19Flintstone
    Fred19Flintstone Posts: 8,174
    I have nothing to add, but smartasstic comments so I'll pass.
    Flint, Michigan
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  • Terrebandit
    Terrebandit Posts: 1,750
    Yes I have but I was to drunk to remember. 
    Dave - Austin, TX
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  • slovelad
    slovelad Posts: 1,742
    clifkincaid said:
    I don't always eat Beaver
    But when I do..It's shaved clean!

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  • SGH
    SGH Posts: 28,989
    Ron, I have ate the tails before. Never tried the carcass. The tails are pretty good. They remind me of real strong pork but a little greasier. I don't really know why I never tried the carcass. Looking back I wish that I would have at least tried one. Again, it reminded me of real strong pork. Not bad, but not great either. As with most things, opinions vary as to their taste. 

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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,589
    beaver livers is the only thing ive ever passed on cooking on the egg, neighbor had a whole bag full from working as animal control in town. he made a mean snapper soup though =) i know he eventually ate those livers.
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  • SGH
    SGH Posts: 28,989
    fishlessman said:
    beaver livers is the only thing ive ever passed on 
    Have you tried the carcass? If so, how was it. Again, I have ate the tails but that's it. 

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  • bo31210
    bo31210 Posts: 715
    Where's the popcorn gif when you need it?  :)
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  • Sea2Ski
    Sea2Ski Posts: 4,131
    I have not Ron, but it would not stop me from trying.  I would imagine like most things, if the environment in which it is living is clean and has good food, it would be better than if from a dirty muddy environment with poor food sources.

    I would also think it would be similar to a groundhog.  In the early spring, just out of hibernation, they are lean and tough. Grill it and your shoe would be more tender; braise it for a few hours and it is similar to beef.  But wait till late spring after the animal eats all that fresh grass, the fat content goes up and hence the flavor and tenderness. the second attempt at grilling a fatty one still failed.

    How did they prepare it on the show?
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,589
    SGH said:
    fishlessman said:
    beaver livers is the only thing ive ever passed on 
    Have you tried the carcass? If so, how was it. Again, I have ate the tails but that's it. 
    until he had those livers thats all ive heard, people eating tail =)  never ate any beaver meat but i hate whole liver anyways, too much bacon gets ruined with liver.  my muscrat hat is giving up the ghost, maybe 30 years old now, beaver  makes a great hat, thats the only good use for those animals, better than the muscrat which has quite the odor on misty rainy days =)
    fukahwee maine

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  • SGH
    SGH Posts: 28,989
    @fishlessman
    I did some quick googling and it looks like a lot of folks mix beaver meat with venison to make summer sausage and Bologna. Seems probably like the best route to go to me. That really doesn't say a lot about the meat though. You can make good Bologna out of buzzard and possum.   

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  • Darby_Crenshaw
    Darby_Crenshaw Posts: 2,657
    I used to go to the Fish and Game Club (where, incidentally, I had to take a class in gun safety b4 i could get my hunting license) dinner every year. 

    Guys would have bear, venison, etc 

    I did have some beaver. It was a stew though, sorta. Meat and sauce maybe

    I have to say, it seem to me a lot of those dishes served were sauced in order to cover the taste. 

    Why take hame if you don't like the flavor?

    Anyway. It was very sweed, but that was the sauce of course.  
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,589
    SGH said:
    @fishlessman
    I did some quick googling and it looks like a lot of folks mix beaver meat with venison to make summer sausage and Bologna. Seems probably like the best route to go to me. That really doesn't say a lot about the meat though. You can make good Bologna out of buzzard and possum.   
    pretty much the only way i can enjoy liver is as a liverwurst, spicey mustard, and raw onion slices. liver night at home was the night i came home late and was sent to bed without dinner, a win win =)
    fukahwee maine

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  • DoubleEgger
    DoubleEgger Posts: 19,174
    I googled this. 

    http://coyoteassassin.blogspot.com/2012/08/trappers-in-southwest-are-about-to-get.html?m=1
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  • SGH
    SGH Posts: 28,989
    Darby_Crenshaw said:
    Why take hame if you don't like the flavor?

    We took them back in the late 70's and the early 80's. They became a real headache and were reaking havoc on the water ways. MDWF put a no bag limit on them and actually encouraged folks to trap or shoot them to help control the population. Again we kept and ate a lot of the tails. Wish I would have tried the carcass as well. Now that they are not a nuisance, I don't care for the tails enough to harvest them. There is certainly better meat in the woods and water than beaver.

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  • swordsmn
    swordsmn Posts: 683
    I knew a Southern Colonel who was quite the expert.....
    LBGE, AR.  Lives in N.E. ATL
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  • MrWilliams
    MrWilliams Posts: 112
    Tastes like spotted owl.
    XL BGE & Mini - CT USA
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  • Fred19Flintstone
    Fred19Flintstone Posts: 8,174
    edited October 2015
    I was hoping @ColAngus would weigh in here.


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  • henapple
    henapple Posts: 16,025
    Truly a weekend thread 
    Green egg, dead animal and alcohol. The "Boro".. TN 
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  • northGAcock
    northGAcock Posts: 15,173
    If Phil Roberson want eat them....then neither will I. He eats a whole lot of things I want for the record.
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  • Legume
    Legume Posts: 15,936
    what a difference one letter makes
    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    SGH said:
    fishlessman said:
    beaver livers is the only thing ive ever passed on 
    Have you tried the carcass? If so, how was it. Again, I have ate the tails but that's it. 
    Beaver tail seems a little redundant.....oh sorry, wrong forum.
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  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 34,736
    edited October 2015
    RRP said:
    Tonight I was watching Discovery' s program  entitled Alaska - the Last Wild Frontier. At the beginning the guys trapped/killed/skinned a beaver...then they cooked and ate the beaver meat. Please don't laugh at me...this is an HONEST SINCERE question...have you ever eaten a beaver and what in your opinion did it taste like? 
    I would advise against putting too much emphasis on the taste.  Focus on how moist it is.  If it's really really dry, you shouldn't be down there.
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