Bread Yeast?

Question

When making pruno, does the bread HAVE to be moldy, also, can you just use sugar & water without any juice?
~A Bored Ghetto Brewmeister

Scoccasso: I do know how it works. I know you can't have just sugar and water ALONE, i meant, can you just use sugar and water for the yeasts food source instead of juice. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Answer 1

No, it does not have to be moldy.
Follow this link:
http://www.blacktable.com/gillin030901.htm

Answer 2

In any food recipe, beverage, etc. mould is bad. Mould is poisonous to humans. Mould not good. Mould will kill you man. So, no, not only does it not need to be mouldy

Fermentation is a different process than mould. If, when producing something, such as pickles, kimchi, bread levain (starter), etc. and there is mould... the process has been ruined and it must be thrown out and started again. Anyone who says different is an idiot. If you are producing an alcoholic beverage, such as you said, pruno -- which is basically a drink for all those morons in prison -- you'd better be very careful you know what you are doing. The resulting beverage can kill you or cause blindness. Happens all the time. Such deaths and blindness is well known in places such as in Russia where a lot of people make their own vodka yet are too dumb to know how to do it properly... probably largely due to their constant drunkenness (not Russians in general, but the idiot ones... we're usually talking about broke alcoholics).

You cannot just use sugar and water... you obviously do not understand the process. Yeast is what is doing the work -- breaking down the sugars and peeing out alcohol. Pruno using bread is just using the yeast in bread to start the batch. Yeast can be found everywhere, but easily found on natural fresh berries (on the skin... that's that powdery stuff on the outer skin of berries, apples, etc.). That's why they use fruit or berries to make wine too... the yeast in on the outside of the fruit, and the sugar is on the inside. If you eat very very ripe fruit, such as blackberries that are very sweet and soggy and falling apart... you can get drunk if you eat enough, but put them all in some container and let them ferment more... more alcohol. Adding your own sugar will work to speed up the process etc, but speeding up the process also has its risks... too much alcohol.... well, do your homework. Lots of book in the library on how to do it properly.

Do a search for "Recipe for Prison Pruno" on the net.

Answer 3

Of course what most of the geniuses here have missed is that pretty much all the yeast in baked bread is dead. Yeast dies at about 130 deg F. You actually dont need the bread. As one guy said here, theres a lot more live yeast on the outside of some fruits than in a truckload of bread