make your own adult beverage

[urian]

i was watching castaway the other night i wondered if you were stranded on a desert island would you be able to make your own alcohol? just in case.

[jomifl]

Almost certainly if you can find stuff to eat you can probably make booze.

[urian]

but how? would you not need yeast? or equivalent?

[Answerprancer]

Probably. You would need to source some local (edible) fruit/veg, add water and sugar and be able to sterilise a sealable container to ferment it in. Yeast (which you would need to start the fermentation process) occurs naturally.

[jomifl]

Yeast occurs naturally almost everywhere. You might not get the finest quality wine yeast, but almost any yeast will ferment fruit sugars and make some kind of alcoholic drink. Just expose a glass of long life fruit juice to the atmosphere for a few days..

[jomifl]

AP the sugar will be in the fruit, you don't need to sterilize anything, man has been making booze for millenia without sterilization.

[Mosaic]

Prisoners in the UK make it by leaving fruit to fester in bowls outside their cell windows.

[woofgang]

if you make a sourdough ferment, the liquid that settles out of it has an alcoholic content

[d9f1c7]

Tescos do deliver anywhere you know!

[woofgang]

and there goes the voice of commonsense dashing our lovely fantasy.

[Baldric]

I'm reserving judgement on that one for the moment