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By contrast, you can make wine from a single ingredient. And it's an awful lot better than coke.
by mynameishere 14y ago
By contrast, you can make wine from a single ingredient. And it's an awful lot better than coke.
- s0rce 14y agoYou need grapes and yeast, it just happens that the yeasts are found in the air/on the grapes.
- contingencies 14y agoA good spot to learn precisely how and why you are wrong: http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/ http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/
- mynameishere 14y agoNatural grapes make wine on their own. In fact, most creatures produce ethanol through one or another pathway.
- contingencies 14y agoPresence of ethanol does not a wine make. If you happen to have a certain temperature range, suitable wild-yeast strains present, adequate chemical composition and pick at the right time of year, it is theoretically possible to make a drinkable wine with unprocessed fruits and no chemicals. However, in most environments and with most fruits you are far more likely to wind up with something foul-tasting and undrinkable.
- jonknee 14y agoThe glass bottle, cork, label, etc do not grow on the vine.
- contingencies 14y agoNor do sterilized equipment, reliably dominant yeasts, clarification agents, additional sugars and yeast nutrients often required to balance or complete fermentation, or environments that maintain and/or remove suitable temperature ranges for desirable yeasts.
- corresation 14y agoOut of curiosity, did you actually read the linked article or did you just jump to conclusions based on the title?