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Fermentation 2: blindness?
Loafgoat
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Awhile back we had a thread about home wine making here. That thread inspired me to do a few similar things of my own, and I have gotten as far as having something that I am certain from the smell contains alcohol. Yet I am hesitant to drink it because I was once told that it is possible to get sick/go blind/die from drinking the wrong type of alcohol.
If what I was told was true, how can I be sure of the type of alcohol I have created?
I should probably mention that the liquid in question is just grape juice which I have let ferment. No additives.
If what I was told was true, how can I be sure of the type of alcohol I have created?
I should probably mention that the liquid in question is just grape juice which I have let ferment. No additives.
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See, we in the brewing business refer to that as 'garbage' and we throw it into a 'trash'.
You might be able to drink it and it might even have some alcohol content, but because you're basically using wild yeasts in the air it's going to taste like ass and you're not going to get a buzz unless you weight 15 pounds or less.
There are TONS of different varieties of yeast cultures. With brewing you'll use an Ale yeast. With baking you use Baker's yeast. The difference? If you were to brew beer with baker's yeast it will mostly just make a very gasey low low low (think less then O'Doul's) alcoholic beverage. Baker's yeast is actually 'bred' to be used in baking, Ale yeast is made to be used in ale. Ale yeast will excrete a higher alcohol content.
What am I getting at with this? Wild yeasts are generally (generally, there are brewers that will use wild yeast, but it's a pain in the ass and a hard process to get something good), well, wild. They were never bred for a specific purpose.
So throw that shit away. And it's grain alcohol that makes you go blind.
One does not use baker's yeast in wine, there are specific wine yeasts availible.
Without a starter culture, you have made prison wine. Kudos, millions of inmates would be proud. I would say it's quality will be less than 100 points on the rating scale, but that it is unlikely to kill you, and since you made it, bottoms up. Worst case scenario, you end up retching your guts out. Best case scenario you have a story and a terribly daring beverage you can share with your friends and/or enemies.