Strawberry + Banana Smoothie plus Yeast?!?!

[RatboyOllie]

Right, i wonder if this is a non-starter but i was in my local Jack Fultons today and found Strawberry and banana smoothie in 250ml bottles, 8 for a £1 !! So I bought 24 of the buggers with the intention of whacking them in the fv with a teaspoon of yeast and awaiting an alcoholic strawberry+banana smoothie concoction!!

Will it work?

Ive done some Tc and the lidl red wine and this is kinda similar. I just tried one of the bottles before I chuck it all int he fv though as a guideline to how it tastes before and its quite thick and gloopy................

Have i gone completey barkin mad or shall i whack it in and see what happens? Anyone daft enough out there to have tried sumthin similar before?

Happy brewin

Ollie

[WishboneBrewery]

Does the smoothy contain yoghurt?
Might be battle of the microbes!

[RatboyOllie]

i dont "think" so

here is the back of the bottle;

"strawberry + banana smmothie made from a blend of whole crushed fruit juices from concentrate"

ingredients; fruit purees from concentrate; banana (35.4%), Strawberry (15.1%), Raspberry (5.5%), Juices from Concentrate Grape (32.9%), Black Carrot (8.2%), Orange (2.8%), Lemon (0.1%)

ahhhh ballix, I just typed all this crap then read the front of the bottle where it says "non dairy"

couldve saved me fingers some typing?!

In which case.... ya reckon itll work?

[boingy]

No idea whether it will work. I reckon it will cost you about £3 and a packet of yeast to find out. Go for it!
Actually, I may be slightly unsober this evening so you may wish to get a second opinion. My Pedigree clone is tasting good. Bertunder! Anuzzer beer pleeze!

[lordnoise]

I remember a load of stuff in the papers last year about exploding smoothie bottles in supermarkets due to unwanted fermentation. Sounds like your on to a winner ...

[mrbenbod]

What the devils 'Black Carrot' ???

[WishboneBrewery]

What the devils 'Black Carrot' ???

Evil Carrots that come to take over the world

[randomdave]

It cant be anyworse than the fermented tomato juice that someone on here made.
I bet it will be one of those drinks that you can only have 1 or 2 of cos it will be sweet and sickly. Keep us posted tho sounds really interesting. TO google to find out WTF a Black carrot is....

[charlie]

I couldn't resist this

"The Carrot originated some 5000 years ago in Middle Asia around Afghanistan, and slowly spread into the Mediterranean area. The first carrots were white, purple, red, yellow/green and black - not orange."

Enlightenment can be found at http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/history.html , where else.

Cheers

[RatboyOllie]

why the feck are they putting ancient wierd carrots in a smoothie?!

anyways, i will whack it in the fv this evening and will report back in a couple of weeks

youre dead right, for £3 its worth a punt and quite exciting too

itll get drunk either way, if it tastes like vomit i will get it out when the mates come round after everyone has already had a skinful, that way itll taste wonderful !

i'll let you know what happens........

[Laripu]

why the feck are they putting ancient wierd carrots in a smoothie?!

Probably the same reason you're trying to ferment a smoothie - because they were on sale.

[RatboyOllie]

a very good point !

im sure many on here are thinking "why the feck is he fermenting smoothie?"

they would be bloody right to ask as well !

I have nee got a clue !

[Benson_JV]

Any word on this good sir? Is it fermenting away?

[RatboyOllie]

yes mate, its off ! its fermenting away happily, quite aggresively, i guess these smoothies pretend to be healthy but are actually filled with sugar so my yeasties are very happy little yeasties right now !

i still think itll taste like rat pss but time will tell !

[Benson_JV]

Excellent Did you happen to take the OG?