When SHTF, 2012, Zombies, etc.

[SSG]

If everything goes to pieces...will it really be that bad? Maybe I am nuts, but everytime I see one of these movies where a bunch punk rockers in Mohawks are running down cars on the highway, I can't help but get a woody thinking about it....

 

[e28rusty]

Yeah, I can't wait. It's gonna be the best apocalypse of all time!

 

[EZLivin]

everytime I see one of these movies where a bunch punk rockers in Mohawks are running down cars on the highway, I can't help but get a woody thinking about it....

That is just wrong!

 

[chemist]

Wheeler44, the only alcohol that yeast can make is ethanol, the happy-sunset stuff. Methanol, the you'll-go-blind stuff, is produced by destructive distillation of organic material like wood. There are traces of other alcohols present in some wines, like isoamyl alcohol ("fusel oil") in plum wine, but they're generally happystuff, too.

The white dust on your plums might not be all that bad a yeast for making plum wine; likewise the native yeast on your grapes may generate a wine of passable quality. Will it make an award-winning vintage? Not likely. Will it add color to your sunsets? Most definitely.

 

[Wheeler44]

Wheeler44, the only alcohol that yeast can make is ethanol, the happy-sunset stuff. Methanol, the you'll-go-blind stuff, is produced by destructive distillation of organic material like wood. There are traces of other alcohols present in some wines, like isoamyl alcohol ("fusel oil") in plum wine, but they're generally happystuff, too.

The white dust on your plums might not be all that bad a yeast for making plum wine; likewise the native yeast on your grapes may generate a wine of passable quality. Will it make an award-winning vintage? Not likely. Will it add color to your sunsets? Most definitely.

I'm happier already...Thanks....I might just try some "open" fermentation this summer..

 

[EZLivin]

The white dust on your plums might not be all that bad a yeast for making plum wine; likewise the native yeast on your grapes may generate a wine of passable quality.

Is that how it was done in the days before prepackaged yeast?