You know that grapes make wine right...so can you get drunk off of grapes? I mean like after they are dried and ready to be made into wine.
2007-01-12 12:08:24 · 7 answers · asked by tweetyzluv 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
You cannot get drunk by eating fresh or dried grapes.
Fresh grapes can have natural yeasts on them which could cause the grapes to ferment in the right circumstances, but washing them prior to eating would remove the yeasts, and anyway once inside you, the action of your stomach in digestion would prevent any such fermentation. And even suppose you did eat an entire bunch of grapes which did ferment in your stomach, the small amount of alcohol produced wouldn't make you drunk.
Dried grapes -- i.e. raisins -- are made into wines (very poor second rate ones) in some places, but they have to have yeasts added and water to rehydrate them.
2007-01-13 02:21:41 · answer #1 · answered by Pontac 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Grapes are not dried prior to making wine, unless you are talking about Amarone.
Wild grapes, allowed to ripen on the vine, can achieve a natural fermentation (changing the sugar into alcohol) and could produce inebriation, if eaten in sufficient quantities - but you'd have to eat a lot!
There are reports of drunken animals having eaten fermented wild grapes.
If ignorance is bliss, the answerers below must be some of the most blissful people around!
In the "raisen" business, huh? You can't be raisin' too many raisins if you don't know how to spell RAISIN!
When grapes are dried to make Amarone, for example, they are not dried completely, but dried to concentrate the juice. Wine is fermented in many ways, but primary fermentation is NEVER carried out in a barrel!
2007-01-12 20:15:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
How could you get liquid out of something dried?? lol Dried grapes are called raisens.. Wine is basically grape juice that is fermented in large oak barrells. This site is awesome and has some great info.. http://www.winemonthclub.com/winemaking.htm
2007-01-12 20:37:43 · answer #3 · answered by Gorgeous 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get alot of grapes and start chowen down
2007-01-12 20:29:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry tweezy, but grapes are mashed and then the juices are aged / fermented. a DRIED GRAPE IS KNOWN AS A RAISEN
2007-01-12 20:17:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no because its the ingrediants they add to the grapes that gets you drunk silly
2007-01-12 21:53:11 · answer #6 · answered by SADIE R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋