new to homebrew and have concerns

[chrisyboii221]

I have started to brew an alcopop drink and after 1 night there seems to be orange foam right at the bottom of the vessil and bellow it is a layer of sugar ??

Do i need to do anything to it or am i being worryed about nothing.

Sorry if i sound stupid buy i am new to this.

Ingredients i used :
400ml juice
1.5litre water
1tsp yeast
250g sugar

[orlando]

Sounds like fermentation, the "foam" sounds like flocculating (clumping) yeast, which is a good thing. You may not have stirred all the sugar until it went into solution, but don't worry it eventually will.

[chrisyboii221]

Thats good.. thank you, you took alot of weight of my shoulder ... so should i leave it do you think or stir the sugar in ?

[orlando]

You could give it a swirl by just moving the "jar" in a circle but frankly I wouldn't worry.

[chrisyboii221]

Okay thanks for your help.

[timbo41]

Yep.sounds like the yeast is doing its stuff! You say a tsp of yeast. I assume that's bakers yeast? Not ideal, for any brewing, but it will get there! May not be quite what you expect taste wise though

[fatbloke]

Yep.sounds like the yeast is doing its stuff! You say a tsp of yeast. I assume that's bakers yeast? Not ideal, for any brewing, but it will get there! May not be quite what you expect taste wise though

As long as its been cleared down ok, taste should be fine. The only downside is that bread yeast is a bit of a swine as it doesn't flocculate well. It can do the better part of 12 % ABV but comes back into suspension if it thinks you've given it "a funny look".......

Plus it would seem that its closely related to the strain thats found in Lalvin 71B Narbonne. So is unlikley to be good if the ferment is left on the lees too long after the ferment has finished.

Brandon eh timbo4 ? Tipping bottled water at the estate opposite the fried chicken/carwash place tomorrow afternoon (if work goes to schedule...i.e. no traffic). The yanks don't seem to do night flying very often.......I hope)

[timbo41]

Well mate, traffic tends to build a bit here early pm due to ongoing work on the A11. I know the place you mean..keep meaning to try and blag some containers as fv..
if you come into Brandon from thetford direction you should avoid most traffic

[fatbloke]

Well mate, traffic tends to build a bit here early pm due to ongoing work on the A11. I know the place you mean..keep meaning to try and blag some containers as fv..
if you come into Brandon from thetford direction you should avoid most traffic

Nah, it's M/A11 to fiveways (heading up from the smoke)......

The water bottle containers are Ok for just the ferment, but I don't store anything in them, as they're Polycarbonate and Bisphenol A is used in the manufacture. Which means they're fine for water but you wouldn't want to have them in contact with any solvent, like alcohol, for any length of time.

Hence I just use them to ferment occasionally and then get the stuff out and into glass.......