Waste not want not...

YSpanopoulos

OK so we made a batch of lovely elderflower 'champagne', a lightly sparkling low alcohol summertime beverage using this recipe. Basically its made similarly to elderflower wine, but bottled and chilled before allowing it to ferment.
Anyway, upon enjoying a bottle or two we realized it was upsetting our stomach... on further investigation we realized that the water we used wasn't clean tap water so was probably contaminated.
It breaks our heart to pour the whole batch of elderflower down the drain (though it would break our stomach more to drink it!), so we were wondering is there a way we can 'convert' it to elderflower wine. Apparently the higher alcohol level of wine would kill off any nasties in the beverage.
Other than that, does anyone have any ideas on salvaging or using the batch other than as drain cleaner?
Thanks in advance!!

BeerNut

YSpanopoulos wrote: »

Apparently the higher alcohol level of wine would kill off any nasties in the beverage.

This sounds unlikely. If it's contaminated, it's contaminated and you can't clean it up. I think you'd be safer dumping it.

RasTa

What do you mean by not clean tap water? How long have you left it for before drinking?

sharingan

YSpanopoulos wrote: »

Other than that, does anyone have any ideas on salvaging or using the batch other than as drain cleaner?
Thanks in advance!!

Chuck it. You can’t salvage it, but your compost heap will appreciate it.

Be wary of fermenting beverages from recipes on cooking websites. Some of them call for procedures that are dangerous, or don’t lay out good sanitation procedures

YSpanopoulos

Thanks for all the replies.
The water came from a tap connected to the water tank in the loft, rather than mains drinking water (we later found out).
We left it for a around a month before drinking it.