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Giving this a go. I found some yeast at the market in Valencia. (Pronouncing "yeast" as it is actually pronounced only leads to confusion and "deer in the headlights" looks. Locals call it "yes't".) I am assuming this is bread/baker's yeast and not beer/wine yeast. It costs P5 per packet which I guesstimate is good for about 50 liters. I am also guessing the yeast will die off around 10-15% alcohol content from what I have seen in YouTube videos.

My first two attempts are with 1 liter of 100% coconut water and pineapple juice, adding 1 cup of white sugar and half a teaspoon of the yeast to each mix. I will let them sit for a week and test, if they aren't strong enough I will give it another week. So far after just one day I am getting a strong alcohol smell out of both bottles. Seems promising and I plan on experimenting more as I find more juice, but so far I have only found the pineapple and coconut juice. I may try the 4 seasons juice box if I am unable to find anything else locally as it seems that the only thing that matters is the sugar to yeast ratio. The rest seems to be only for flavor (so long as there aren't any additional ingredients or preservatives added to the juice.)

 

Just took a sip of the coconut water wine(?) tonight and I'm quite impressed with the progress. It is much better than the original product, which I found a bit off-putting. It is nicely carbonated, alcohol content tastes like it is in the 5-8% range, not overly sweet (but still a bit too much on the sweet side for my personal taste) and mellowed out that coconut water flavor that I'm not a huge fan on. This is after 4 or 5 days. Plenty of bubbles still coming up so I'll give it another 2-3 days, taste test again then refrigerate. I'm hoping to get it up around the 10-15% alcohol range.

The tasting was at room temperature. I think if refrigerated it might even give my rum and coke zero preference a run for the money...though, personally, its caloric values, which I have no idea how to calculate, may be an issue for regular consumption.

For ~1 liter of coconut water I added 1 cup of sugar and ~1/2 a teaspoon of baker's yeast. I will definitely experiment with larger batches if this turns out good.

 

Meh. The state the world is in now is what happens when you let fear take over.


We participate in and deal with far riskier things on a daily basis, likely MUCH more dangerous things once (if) we find out exactly how many people have been infected without any serious symptoms. If we freaked out like this on every thing more dangerous than COVID-19 the world would not resemble anything like it does today. I think it is time we end this nonsense and get the world back on track and stop screwing over the younger generations. This virus is not nearly as scary as many initially thought it to be. F*ck China and f*ck the WHO. Anyone found to have knowingly hidden or misrepresented information for political/diplomatic gains should be gathered up (along with every living generation of their family that didn't loudly and publicly condemn those actions) and hung from the nearest tree, recorded and uploaded to the internet for all to see. What happened to Mussolini and his wife would be far too kind of a punishment for those that have abused their powers during this pandemic.

 

People say this about just about every popular beer out there. I would bet that there process is much safer, better regulated and more sterile than many people doing it at home. It's fine to not like the taste of a beer but to imply that something wrong is going on without any evidence is just as dishonest as the actions that those companies are being accused of.

 

If I can make it cheaper or at the same price, have a product I enjoy and not support a government/leadership I disapprove of (because they are openly hostile to mine and regularly talk about restricting visas to screw over the people from that country) by depriving them of their "sin" tax then I consider that a win. The less I give to the government the better. Sure, it is petty and makes absolutely no difference but...oh well.