Is it a danger to your health to drink homemade wine if not everything was properly sterilized?!
for my biology class we are making wine!. we sterilized everything, but some of it ( the thing htat corks it on top) was lain back down on the lab table after it aws sterilized!. i am so scared i'm gonna get seriously ill from taht wine!. is that a legitimate fear!? it probably didnt touch the actual wine, jsut the top of it!. mom says i shoudl let my lab partners try it and wait a few days befor ei do LOLWww@FoodAQ@Com
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"There are no known pathogens (toxic micro-organisms) that can survive in beer (or wine)!." Any of the contamination that you are working on avoiding with your sanitation are things that would produce off flavors!. The homemade wine will be safe!. Whether it will taste good is another matter!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
The worst thing that can happen from a contamination, is that you vomit, because it tastes so horribly bad!. Like said above, there are no known pathogens that survive in beer and wine!. A severe contamination will make it taste so bad, that you probably won't even be able to force yourself to drink it without vomiting!. Just laying the stopper down on the lab table probably won't cause a contamination, so everything should be fine!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
You should be fine!. The biggest danger is to the wine from aceter bacteria!. Even if it does get that infection it isn't really harmful to you!.Www@FoodAQ@Com