Science experiment / prison wine

[r_transpose_p]

Inspired by this article I tried the following experiment

Comments

[sylvie]

Side note : No wonder alcohol prohibition failed -- this stuff was really easy to make. Distillation must be the hardest thing about moonshine.
Most likely to explode as well. Through the magic of wild yeasts and natural fermentation (which is how sourdough bread works too), booze has been around way longer than yeast packets. It's possible you could make booze by just letting the juice sit out for a while, but it might also spoil.

[jacquez]

Some cultures use spit to start the fermentation process. Extra cheap & easy!

[shalifi]

Why in the world would you need extra sugar in orange juice? That's like 90% sugar already.

[r_transpose_p]

I don't like dry pruno. ;)

[firimari]

Some of us do this with apple cider, and use yeast that actually meant for making alcoholic drinks.

And properly sanitized carboys with airlocks.

all proper now, aren't we?

[r_transpose_p]

I bet you even do things like "properly age the result rather than drinking it mid-fermentation" ;)

There was to be a reason there isn't an aged fermented orange product out there. I'm guessing someone tried and it didn't taste that good.

Re: all proper now, aren't we?

[eub]

I tried a mead once with orange juice concentrate. It's in my basement still, labeled "orange PEZ". Maybe it just needs another ten years of oxidation?