alcohol

[suna]

dose anyone think you could make a very simple alcohol with water suger and yeast only

[Buenchico]

Yeast is a living (fungal) substance, which must have something to live on. It can't survive on sugar alone, so your suggestion wouldn't work.

For a cheap addition to get it to work, just throw in a few spuds and then distil the resultant product. That, so I'm told is, how hooch is brewed in prisons. It's said to have one hell of a kick. The only downside is that as well as producing ethyl alcohol, there's a risk that bacterial activity will also produce methyl alcohol. The former is the psychoactive drug which you're aiming to produce, the latter is highly toxic.

Chris

[Booldawg]

IMO you would make an alcohol drink using only yeast, sugar and water - but it would taste pretty horrible!

Sugar is 100% fermentable, the yeast would convert the sugar into alcohol (C02 is a by-product of this action).

Buenchico is right in saying yeast is a fungal substance but will quite happily chomp its way through sugar suspended in a liquid without any other matter being present.

Your biggest risk is bacteria. Make sure everything the drink comes into contact with has been sterilised in a bleach solution (5ml per litre) and then rinsed out (to remove the bleach aroma).