Right, i know nothing about this sort of stuff, so please bear with me. As i understand, when at the right tempertaure, yeast produces carbon dioxide and alcohol. If this is true, couldn't you simply mix yeast with warm water, leave it a few days at the right temperature and then (as alcohol has a lower boiling point) simply fix up a filtering system and evoporate the alcohol at around 80C (i think thats around the boiling point for alcohol) leaving you alcohol with no water?!
2007-06-05 12:00:07 · 8 answers · asked by Phantom 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
Ok, something for the yeast to eat......sugar?!
2007-06-05 12:04:56 · update #1
Hmm....anybody know if this would be safe to consume (out of curiosity)
2007-06-05 12:09:18 · update #2
You need to have something for the yeast to eat... it can't be plain water.
Yes, yeast eat/consumes sugars and alcohol (and carbon dioxide) is a by-product of yeast digestion.
This process is known as fermentation.
Sources of sugar...
Beer is made with yeast consuming malt (malted barley).
Wine from sugar in the grapes.
Whiskey uses any mixture of malted barley, corn, rye and wheat
Vodka can be made from grains and some use potatoes.
Safe to consume... Yes for the most part if you intend to distill it, unless you somehow contaminated your batch and system.
Taste/Flavor may be off.
2007-06-05 12:03:42 · answer #1 · answered by lots_of_laughs 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Adding sugar to the yeast water mix makes alcohol. That is the old advert for pills all the sugar turns to alcohol. You also need additives for flavor, IE hope barley if beer, fruit etc for flavored beer. Wine and spirits are made from different yeast, also alcohol is made from brewers yeast not bread yeast which is completely different.
2007-06-06 05:12:02 · answer #2 · answered by steve b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes needs more than sugar to ferment. It also needs minerals like zinc and nitrogen. As the yeast eats the sugars, it creates alcohol and CO2
You'd get a little alcohol by fermenting sugar water, but it wouldn't taste good. And if you wanted to distill it, you would start with twenty or thirty times what you would end up with.
2007-06-05 16:36:07 · answer #3 · answered by dogglebe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Beer and wine contain the remnants of yeast. The sediment in wine is mainly dead yeast.
2016-05-17 14:26:41 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not so
what has the water to offer the yeast to do any thing but sit there..???
It needs starch and sugar to do what you ask.
You need to learn about chemistry
go to the library read up on wine and distillery.
2007-06-05 12:10:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
eh there is ethenol, methenol, and alchol, in russia they made cheep booze and it made people go blind. technically you could put bread in a bag with water and get beer... after you distill it, anyways using your equation you need to watch if you are making alchol you clean with use for fuel, or consume. carefull buddy. if it works send me a bottle.
2007-06-05 13:01:19 · answer #6 · answered by CANCEL 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i know that beer has yeast and that is why beer taste different!!
2007-06-05 12:09:26 · answer #7 · answered by brbdsbabe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not so good with theese answers so don't ask me
wait you al ready did and I'm responding oh sh*t
2007-06-05 12:07:48 · answer #8 · answered by Shazzy 1 · 0⤊ 4⤋