I just want to start this off by saying I have zero clue what I'm doing, and that essentially everything was rednecked into existence due to me not having the resources or money to get actual fermenting equipment. The purpose of this is to ask if this will actually turn into alcohol, or just be a mess of ingredients that go bad.
What I did:
-Start off with a 500 ML water bottle, a little below half full with water
-Put Great Value Beary Medley In the bottle, mixed well (eyeballed)
-Used folder as a funnel, used cane sugar ( eyeballed but I know that it was a LOT ((20-25 packs maybe?)) )
-Mixed again
-I don't have Yeast, so I look up Yeast alternatives, and they say lemon juice. Eyeballing, I pour around 50 ML - 250 ML
-Mixed Extremely well
-I decide that even though I poured what I assumed to be enough Lemon juice to start fermenting, I did something wrong, so I add in an all-natural honey packet, hoping that might give the yeast another way to ferment. (idk Im new)
-Pour in a little bit more lemon juice because Im skeptical
-Decide that if this doesn't turn into wine/mead/beer/etc. I still want to fill something, 5 Hour Energy makes me tired/a 'high" feeling, so I decide to put in at most 3-5 droplets.
-At this point, the liquid is almost at the top, so I stop adding ingredients due to knowing that some space is needed at the top.
-I don't have an airlock, and balloons & condoms aren't on deck, so I redneck it into existence with a bunch of pill bottles and a YT tutorial
-I fear something might explode from the C02 So I decide to put a ziplock back around it, now I know nothing is airtight so if whatever this is fails at least it can escape. You're supposed to put water in it to prevent air intake I believe, however, I don't have any sealant So I decided that this closed system + essentially maze structure would make it harder for any new air to come in, essentially recycling any air back into itself.
Now, I don't know if it's a placebo, but I took a whiff of this and it began to have that wine smell. Mind you, this was day 1, and after smelling it I got a little woozy. Pretty sure alcohol doesn't ferment that quickly though....
Can someone tell me if this'll work or ifI'm just wasting my time??
What I did:
-Start off with a 500 ML water bottle, a little below half full with water
-Put Great Value Beary Medley In the bottle, mixed well (eyeballed)
-Used folder as a funnel, used cane sugar ( eyeballed but I know that it was a LOT ((20-25 packs maybe?)) )
-Mixed again
-I don't have Yeast, so I look up Yeast alternatives, and they say lemon juice. Eyeballing, I pour around 50 ML - 250 ML
-Mixed Extremely well
-I decide that even though I poured what I assumed to be enough Lemon juice to start fermenting, I did something wrong, so I add in an all-natural honey packet, hoping that might give the yeast another way to ferment. (idk Im new)
-Pour in a little bit more lemon juice because Im skeptical
-Decide that if this doesn't turn into wine/mead/beer/etc. I still want to fill something, 5 Hour Energy makes me tired/a 'high" feeling, so I decide to put in at most 3-5 droplets.
-At this point, the liquid is almost at the top, so I stop adding ingredients due to knowing that some space is needed at the top.
-I don't have an airlock, and balloons & condoms aren't on deck, so I redneck it into existence with a bunch of pill bottles and a YT tutorial
-I fear something might explode from the C02 So I decide to put a ziplock back around it, now I know nothing is airtight so if whatever this is fails at least it can escape. You're supposed to put water in it to prevent air intake I believe, however, I don't have any sealant So I decided that this closed system + essentially maze structure would make it harder for any new air to come in, essentially recycling any air back into itself.
Now, I don't know if it's a placebo, but I took a whiff of this and it began to have that wine smell. Mind you, this was day 1, and after smelling it I got a little woozy. Pretty sure alcohol doesn't ferment that quickly though....
Can someone tell me if this'll work or ifI'm just wasting my time??
