Natural Fermentation?

[NorCalBrewer1]

If you were to pour a TON of sugar/wort into a small pond & bring the gravity up to 1.05 or greater, do you think it would ferment out & the pond (no rain) would contain alcohol?

For example, a wild pond with thousands of gallons of water.

Just something I thought about a long time ago. Whenever I see some nasty ponds with foam on top of it, I always have the thought "Fermentation." Even though, it obviously isn't. I'd assume there is lots of wild yeast in these ponds.


Anyone think this theory would be true or false?

 

[stpug]

You'd definitely have "fermentation" of the wild kind

and I'm sure there'd be some smaller-than-normal amount of alcohol

But that would take a lot of sugar