Will this ferment?

[dmcl700]

Hello all I am fairly new and am addicted to experimenting and brewing! I have already made a many wine and am learning as I go mostly thankfully to this brewing community thank you!!
Anyway in my cupboard I have come across 3 little tubs of soft cider concentrate; one apple cinnamon, one Saskatoon berry, and one cranberry. They are made locally and the ingredients are:1: fruit juice (apple juice concentrate), sugar, water, spice, malic acid, citric acid, cinnamon, sodium benzoate, and potassium sorbate.
2: (apple juice concentrate and Saskatoon berry juice) sugar, water, demera sugar, malic acid, citric acid, natural/artificial flavoring, sodium benzoate, and potassium sorbate.
3: same as apple but with cranberry juice

I am not really expecting to be able to make something but I am hoping! I know with everything I have made from
Scratch so far has not had stuff like sorbate or these malic acids or anything..
Any help or advice is much welcome and appreciated thank u in advance '!

 

[Yooper]

Unfortunately, sodium benzoate is the "killer" and a major preservative. Potassium sorbate is too, and with them together there is no way this will ferment. It might grow mold, turn white, etc, but it will NOT ferment.

 

[dmcl700]

Ok. Done and done thank you!! saved me from watching it mold lol

 

[Yooper]

Ok. Done and done thank you!! saved me from watching it mold lol

Hahaha- thanks for bowing to this old lady and not saying, "Well, how do you KNOW?" and making me admit that I've tried just about everything at one time or another.

 

[dmcl700]

Lol cheers

 

[Brewkowski]

Unfortunately, sodium benzoate is the "killer" and a major preservative. Potassium sorbate is too, and with them together there is no way this will ferment. It might grow mold, turn white, etc, but it will NOT ferment.

Not meaning to hijack, but if the only preservative is K-meta, that won't necessarily prevent fermenation right? It was a white grape juice and I'm sure it was probably put in there to keep it white, but I was wondering if I should aerate the juice before mixing it with the other ingredients.

 

[dmcl700]

I'm not giving concrete advice as I am fairly new but seems to me I have had a crabapple/rasperry wine I made with fruit from my farm and I had put campden tablets in it (which is k-meta, right?) and it still fermented. It got stuck and I added energizer but it still fermented.

Also, this concentrate stuff I found at home can't be used for fermenting or making wine, but anyone know if i can use it for backsweetening / adding a different flavor, say to my skeeter pee or something?

 

[Honda88]

sodium benzoate is a no go

 

[dmcl700]

Okaaay back in the back of the cupboard it goes lol

 

[Honda88]

yep, i fermented some pee that had benzoate down to about 1.050 then it just died, dont risk it, always use preservative free products, pottasium metabisulfite is about the only preservative you can deal with, most of the other ones are pretty wicked.

 

[dmcl700]

Can't use it for backsweetening?