: How do you make alcohol? Is there a way to make it organic?
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You get alcohol by using yeast, water, and a source of sugar. You need a container with a water trap so you can keep oxygen out but let the carbon dioxide out. Brewing wine, beer etc is making alcohol so you use grain, fruits, root vegetable, etc water, and yeast
The simplest way is sugar, yeast, water, and a container [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txm7eu8KxVI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txm7eu8KxVI)
You could even use toilet paper [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-mWK_kcZMs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-mWK_kcZMs)
There is not a strict definition of what organic is outside of chemistry.
You can make alcohol from natural gas, you use a water stream and a catalyst to produce it. It is an organic chemical reaction as natural gas it organic but that is nothing appropriate for non-industrial production.
Most of the worlds alcohol is made by growing yeast in an airtight container. So the general recapy is water, sugar and yeast, put in a container with a one way valve that only lets air out for about two weeks. This is all fully organic. The difference in different types of alcohol is mostly how the sugar have been made. All plants have some form of sugar that can be extracted but this often leaves a lot of impurities in the water. This is what gives the different alcoholic beverages their unique taste. It is also possible to destill the alcohol. Yeast is not able to produce very strong drinks as it can not handle too much alcohol. So if you want stronger drinks then wine then you need to extract the alcohol from the water by exploiting the different boiling temperatures of alcohol and water in a destillation aparatus.
It is also possible to make alcohol through inorganic means by using natural gas and putting it through a chemical process. This is sometimes done for certain industrial alcohols where they need to controll the process more tightly. However in most legislation alcohol sold for human consumption have to be organic.
Making alcohol is very simple – make sugar-rich solution and add yeast. Over time, the yeast will convert the sugar to alcohol and ABV will increase (to a point, eventually it becomes too toxic for the yeast and they die).
To make it organic, simply use organic ingredients to make your sugar-rich solution.
It is mostly made organically, basically it is a toxin released by yeast when they consume sugar, if the alcohol content gets too high it kills of the yeast which is why high alcohol content drinks need to be distilled or otherwise made stronger.
All alcohol is “ORGANIC” by definition no matter the source it came from. An alcohol molecule is based on Carbon, which – after all – is the literal definition of Organic.
Almost always, it’s a microfungus called yeast digesting sugar and pooping out alcohol.
So you can actually very easily make “organic” beer or wine by getting “organically” produced yeast and other ingredients.
The definition of organic seems to change depending on your profit margin, but alcoholic drinks fit most of them. Ethanol(drinking alcohol) is an organic molecule since it has a carbon chain. Alcohol is made from plants and can be found in nature in rotten fruit.
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