Yeast + Sugar + 4 weeks = sick ?

Eric Cartman

so two of my friend over here beside me decided to drink about a shot of this concotion each of what follows :

2 grams of bakers yeast
2 kg of tesco sugar
1.5 litres of water (aprox)



this mix has been sitting for about 4 weeks in a room, in an old coke bottle, with a baloon to release Co2, can it harm them ?

MagicMarker

goodbye

super_furry

Darwinian law at it's finest.

Eric Cartman

seriously, will it actually harm them ?

uglyjohn

did they make any attempt to sterilize things at the start?

scuby

Eric Cartman wrote: »

so two of my friend over here beside me decided to drink about a shot of this concotion each of what follows :

2 grams of bakers yeast
2 kg of tesco sugar
1.5 litres of water (aprox)

this mix has been sitting for about 4 weeks in a room, in an old coke bottle, with a baloon to release Co2, can it harm them ?

Eric Cartman wrote: »

seriously, will it actually harm them ?

mmmmhhhhhh ....... obviously a joke !

uglyjohn

he's not responding.....maybe it wasnt the smartest idea ever.

GuanYin

Probably won't do them any damage depending on whether there was water contamination.

To be fair, if you were planning alcohol, there will be very little to none in there. Baker's yeast can not really tolerate more than 5% alcohol and it's fermentation process is acually inhibited by excess sugar. Processed sugar isn't really very good for fermentations either.

Tree

you can find the most interesting fluff growing in stale water.

GuanYin

Well so long as they were relatively hygenic, it should be ok.

The Yeast and CO2 should have hindered most harmful bacterial growth.

All in all, I seriously doubt the solution was very dangerous, or indeed very alcoholic.

DrIndy

wonder what it will taste like?

GuanYin

DrIndy wrote: »

wonder what it will taste like?

sugar and water, I'd imagine.

Tree

mank, total mank. with a yeasty aftertaste.

eth0_

They should have made some prison toilet wine instead.

DrIndy

I'm going to leave a redirect of this thread and send it to the drink forum.

Sterilisation is key to prevent drinking acetic acid instead.

_blank_

and I'm closing it.

This is not about home brewing.

Don't mess with stuff you haven't researched.

If you get sick/die because of this it's because of your own idiocy.