I think that I accidently made some alchohal! help?!
I think that I accidently made some alchohal! help?
I had a bottle of cranberry juice. I opened it and drank about half of it! I set it down in my backpack and I kinda left it there for way over a month! I just noticed it earlier in the week and got thirsty! I opened it and it had this smell to it that burned your nose! I drunk some of it and it had this bittersweet taste and it only had a hint of cranberry! The rest, I have no clue what it was! all I know, is that it is not cranberry juice!
How can I go about seeing if it is alchohalic now? and could that even happen?
3 weeks ago
Also, there is bubbles all over the top! I mean alot! And, mushroms in my ears? WHAT?!
Now, can I git in trouble for having it at school?
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3 weeks ago
Also, there is bubbles all over the top! I mean alot! And, mushroms in my ears? WHAT?!
Now, can I git in trouble for having it at school?
If it fermented or got fizzy you made alcohol.If it just went flat you made spoiled cranberry juice.Alcohol needs sugar or hops to ferment to make wine or beer.Cranberry juice does have sugar added so you probably made wine -I wouldn't recommend drinking it because unless you know what your doing you could poison yourself.
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Dad was a wine maker
Yes, sounds like you made alcohol! My Dad did that once with a bottle of orange juice he left in a storage closet. It was real strong too. How do you think they make alcohol? It is all fermented stuff.
If it had effervescance you made CranWine! Drink it if you like, it won't hurt ya!
If it had no bubbles . . . uh, have you checked your ears lately for mushrooms growing?
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You might want to avoid drinking month-old fruit juice in the future.
Yes, it can (and probably did) ferment- yeast from the air can inoculate it, and will convert the sugar to alcohol. So now you've basically got cranberry wine. -Anything- with sugar and water can become alcoholic.
When bread rises, it's because of the other by-product of fermentation- carbon dioxide. But there's alcohol in unbaked bread dough as well. The reason you don't get drunk eating bread is because the alcohol evaporates when you bake it.
The good news is that your cranberry wine probably won't make you sick (assuming you don't drink enough for a hangover) as alcohol is a natural disinfectant.
Yeah, it sounds like alchohol to me. The sugars in the juice fermented and turned into alchohol. Personally I wouldn't drink it but hey, What ever rubs your Buddah!
P.S. in response to dymonds answer: Hops are and ingerdient in beer but they have nothing to do with the alchohol content. Yeast (weather cultured or natural airborne)
causes fermentation and alchohol. Hops add bitterness and aroma.