Can you make alochol with nutrasweet?!


Question: Would you be able to replace sugar with nutrasweet and still be able to make alcohol?


Answers: Would you be able to replace sugar with nutrasweet and still be able to make alcohol?

You couldn't ferment the nutrasweet to make alcohol, that just goes against chemistry/biochemistry, but, you can use nutrisweet to replace residual sugar. By residual sugar, I mean the sweetness you find in alcoholic drinks like sweet wine, or malt beverages.

When properly fermenting sugar, it all disappears and is converted to alcohol (ethanol) by the yeast. There are diabetic wines because they have no residual sugars. Distilled beverages like vodka, whisky, gin, rum are sugar free, unless they are added back to the original. So technically, you could ferment out some sugars until they were completely gone, leaving you a dry beverage, then adding back nutrasweet to make it sweet, and low cal. Alcohol calories don't matter since they don't add any nutrition and can't be used by the body. You burn more calories processing alcohol.

What do you think? Diet moonshine?

No.
The point of Nutrasweet is that it has no calories. The yeast would be unable to use the Aspartame (the ingredient in Nutrasweet that ISN'T glass/sand) to power their cellular processes...thus, no fermentation, no waste products like Ethanol.
Sorry.
The only thing that Nutrasweet is good for is to help anorexics fight their natural sugar cravings so that they can continue to kill themselves. Even diabetics should not use artificial sweeteners, because many of them still raise the glucometer reading...meaning that the diabetic will take too much insulin with potentially disastrous results.

Edit...you can not make a low calorie, high alcohol drink. Alcohol has 7 calories per gram, no matter what it is made from. That is the same as sugar and protein, and only a little less than fat.

No not possible, you need sugar and yeast to start the fermentation process. Alcohol is loaded with calories, pure grain alcohol like 191 proof Everclear has something like 200 calories per ounce. Same with White Lightning.

No

Before you start getting into home wine making, make sure you understand the concept - check out this article and see if you get it.

http://www.homeboozekit.com/home-winemak...





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