Sugar fermentation without nutrients.

[Eruthien]

Hi, I'm very new to brewing so I started basic by making a sugar wash but I didn't use any nutrients because I didn't realise that yeast may produce compounds other than ethanol without nutrients. I read that without nutrients the fermentation becomes stunted and other alcohols and aldehydes are produced. The wash smells very alcoholic and a bit sweet, reminds me a lot of fizzy apple cider and it tastes very alcoholic and has a very weak hint of bitterness. Do you reckon it's safe to drink or should I toss it?? The yeast were very active, lots of foam and it stopped fermenting after 8 days. I used regular bread yeast and boiled tap water.

Thank you in advance.

 

[crunch1224]

Sure you can drink it, but its not going to taste very good and its going to give you a hang over. Sugar wash is only good for one thing and thats distilling. We cant talk about that here. You have to go to another forum to talk about that subject. We (can) talk about beer, wine, saki any alcoholic beverage that just uses fermentation without further processing of distillation. I basically had to tell you all that to get you off on the right foot on this forum, I dont mean anything by it, just letting you know.

Now that you have seen, the basic of basic sugar to alcohol process and got a hint of whats going on, your on your way to making your first beer. There is so much great information here, and great people that before you know it youre going to be hooked.

 

[Yooper]

Once an admin or moderator closes a thread with an explanation of why it was closed (making hootch), it's bad form to post the exact same question in the exact same words and expect a different result.

Our forum prohibits the discussion of hootch.