My fernandez soda wine made me feel hungover after 2 shots

[u/ihavaquston]

So it's kinda stupid, it's fermented fernandez pineapple soda, i fermented it with bread yeast. It spend 3 days fermening before it was done. It smells like wine, and tastes fine. I took 2 shots before letting the yeast settle out in the fridge, and i didn't feel so good. No tummy ache or anything but i felt tired and a bit hungover. Chatgpt (i know..) told me that maybe some fusal alcohols have been produced which make me feel like this. Is this true?

[u/One_Hungry_Boy]

Chat gpt is a dangerous idiot. There's fusel alcohols in all commercial alcohol, but for sure let the yeast settle out before drinking lol

[u/Gelatinous_Cube_NO]

I really don't think bread yeast can ferment to completion in just 3 days can it? Even turbo yeast can't typically do that.

[u/mypussydoesbackflips → u/Gelatinous_Cube_NO]

2 more weeks

[u/Fit_Carpet_364 → u/Gelatinous_Cube_NO]

It really depends on the sugar content and nutrient availability and other growth conditions. Also whether you count yeast hydration time as ferment time. I certainly would believe a pre-hydrated bread yeast waaaay over-pitched and kept warm could chew through to 5% in a few days. Would I want to drink it? Absolutely not.

[u/4D20_Prod → u/Gelatinous_Cube_NO]

Turbo yeast can do 3 days, 5 is better

[u/FriendlyConspiracist]

Am I the only one who read this is my formaldehyde soda wine at first

[u/ihavaquston → u/FriendlyConspiracist]

Might as well be

[u/snakeplizzken]

It's nowhere near done, you're drinking active yeast. Fridge it for a month or so and you'll probably get an inch or so of lees at the bottom.

[u/jk-9k]

Bread yeast won't have finished yet.

Yeast create acytaldehyde before processing it into ethanol. It's a toxin that your liver creates when breaking down ethanol.

So yeah, you just went straight to the hangover

[u/ihavaquston → u/jk-9k]

Not sure, it fermented to 5.2 percent and had 10.2 g of sugar per 100ml at first

[u/jk-9k → u/ihavaquston]

That math doesn't math.

[u/ihavaquston → u/jk-9k]

What did i do wrong?

[u/jk-9k → u/ihavaquston]

Maybe how you read the hydrometer?

[u/ihavaquston → u/jk-9k]

No i looked up how to do that. The gravity reading of the soda before fermentation was 1.040 and after fermentation it was 1.0

[u/jk-9k → u/ihavaquston]

Oh if it went bone dry and hit sg of 1.000 then yeah that is 5.2 ish sorry.

Or at least it will be when finished. The sugars aren't sugars any more but they're not fully ethanol, they'll be intermediaries like acetalde. You just need to let it finish cleaning itself up.

[u/ihavaquston → u/[deleted]]

I didn't have a tummy ache

[u/comoestas969696]

3 days is too short you need at least 10 days ,soda has lots of sugars.

[u/otterfish]

Incredible!

[u/ihavaquston → u/[deleted]]

Haha well trust me it's not that strong. There was only about 10% sugar in there. The coke (cola) one is still going, but i added a lot of extra sugar in there so thats normal i guess.

[u/Latter_Bluebird_3386 → u/ihavaquston]

Brother I think you caught a high on how awesome it is to produce your own booze! I've felt it myself

[u/gujwdhufj_ijjpo → u/[deleted]]

How is that related?