The process you describe is called fermentation and that only happens to beer and wine. Spirits are distilled and don't start out with sugar in the first place.That's fine then, I was just unsure after reading a bottle label and seeing the words "sugar maple charcoal" I guess that's just in reference to the process. the whole Sugar turning to alcohol thing.
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I'm sorry you're mistaken, brandy for example is distilled from fermented wine. All alcohol has sugar to feed the yeast for fermentation, and all spirits are distilled from this fermented juice.The process you describe is called fermentation and that only happens to beer and wine. Spirits are distilled and don't start out with sugar in the first place.
Somewhere in the process there must be sugar or you wouldn't have much alcohol to distil. Thats what I have heard anyway.The process you describe is called fermentation and that only happens to beer and wine. Spirits are distilled and don't start out with sugar in the first place.
Thank you. I learn something new every day. So the distillation procedure boils off the sugar as well as the alcohol then?I'm sorry you're mistaken, brandy for example is distilled from fermented wine. All alcohol has sugar to feed the yeast for fermentation, and all spirits are distilled from this fermented juice.
First you use sugar to make something with alcohol in it, THEN you distil the alcohol from it to make, eventually, spirit.Thank you. I learn something new every day. So the distillation procedure boils off the sugar as well as the alcohol then?
I know a lot of people here enjoy a glass of wine and say it does not affect their BG levels. I don't drink myself but.what puzzles me is that grapes are supposed to be one of the worse fruits you can eat as it can send BG's sky high so why doesn't wine do that as it is made from grapes
I know a lot of people here enjoy a glass of wine and say it does not affect their BG levels. I don't drink myself but.what puzzles me is that grapes are supposed to be one of the worse fruits you can eat as it can send BG's sky high so why doesn't wine do that as it is made from grapes
or it could be that the yeast uses the fermentable sugars as food and when it's gone goes dormant, leaving the unfermentable sugars / carbs
maybe when there is too much sugar and the alc concentration kills yeast, they are doing it wrong or using the wrong strain of yeasr