Science experiment / prison wine
Inspired by this article I tried the following experiment.
Take a container of orange juice, pour some out, pour in one container of "active dry baking yeast" and one packet of sugar.
close top, shake, let sit at room temperature for 8 hours.
Drink.
Result : One orange-flavored fizzy, slightly sweet, mildly alcoholic beverage.
Actually tasty -- from what I've read of "hobo wine" or "prison wine" I suspect the secret is drinking it fresh before fermentation is complete (note : this should be chock-full of yeast, not sure if such a high dosage of yeast is a good idea, but the small quantities in live-yeast beer [such as Sierra Nevada from a bottle] never seem to do any harm)
Side note : No wonder alcohol prohibition failed -- this stuff was really easy to make. Distillation must be the hardest thing about moonshine.
Take a container of orange juice, pour some out, pour in one container of "active dry baking yeast" and one packet of sugar.
close top, shake, let sit at room temperature for 8 hours.
Drink.
Result : One orange-flavored fizzy, slightly sweet, mildly alcoholic beverage.
Actually tasty -- from what I've read of "hobo wine" or "prison wine" I suspect the secret is drinking it fresh before fermentation is complete (note : this should be chock-full of yeast, not sure if such a high dosage of yeast is a good idea, but the small quantities in live-yeast beer [such as Sierra Nevada from a bottle] never seem to do any harm)
Side note : No wonder alcohol prohibition failed -- this stuff was really easy to make. Distillation must be the hardest thing about moonshine.