doffcocker
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Hi,
I'm a complete amature in home brewing so please bare with me because so much methodology and terminology is still a mystery to me.
I started experimenting a year or so back, looking into how I could make alcohol in the most simple and basic ways.
So I have basically been dropping a little dried active yeast into bottles of fruit juice (occasionally adding sugar) and leaving for a week or so, or until it tastes completely dry. I also invested in a hydrometer and although I don't fully understand the mathematics enough to get accurate readings, I can at least see that what I make has usually progressed in that it sinks completely where it originally floated.
Obviously this stuff isn't a taste sensation but the novelty for me lies in just being able to produce the alcohol. I'm just not entirely convinced that what I end up with is actually alcohol as such in that when I drink it I don't feel particularly ****** or at least not in the same way I do from a pint at the pub or wine from the shop. I find there's a sort of delayed response - I will typically drink a couple of pints and instead of feeling it straight away, it's only half an hour or so later I start to feel merry/tipsy. Perhaps it's just my imagination, I'm just not entirely satisfied that what I'm making isn't just rancid pop.
I would appreciate any words of advise or reassurance.
I'm a complete amature in home brewing so please bare with me because so much methodology and terminology is still a mystery to me.
I started experimenting a year or so back, looking into how I could make alcohol in the most simple and basic ways.
So I have basically been dropping a little dried active yeast into bottles of fruit juice (occasionally adding sugar) and leaving for a week or so, or until it tastes completely dry. I also invested in a hydrometer and although I don't fully understand the mathematics enough to get accurate readings, I can at least see that what I make has usually progressed in that it sinks completely where it originally floated.
Obviously this stuff isn't a taste sensation but the novelty for me lies in just being able to produce the alcohol. I'm just not entirely convinced that what I end up with is actually alcohol as such in that when I drink it I don't feel particularly ****** or at least not in the same way I do from a pint at the pub or wine from the shop. I find there's a sort of delayed response - I will typically drink a couple of pints and instead of feeling it straight away, it's only half an hour or so later I start to feel merry/tipsy. Perhaps it's just my imagination, I'm just not entirely satisfied that what I'm making isn't just rancid pop.
I would appreciate any words of advise or reassurance.