My homebrew idea

[Alanc16]

Ingredients

2 big bags of sour skittles
4.5 litres of water
5g cider yeast/sweetener

I blended up the 2 bags of sour skittles and added to 4.5 litres of hot water

Stirred for 5-10 minutes until they where completely dissolved, waited untill 25c then added the yeast/sweetener

Just wondering has anyone ever thought of doing / done this before

 

[Andy.H]

Interesting. Let us know how it goes :)

 

[ScottM]

I haven't tried making that but what I have tried is skittle vodka.

Pour skittles into empty vodka bottle, pour vodka in top of skittles. Leave overnight.

Yummy fruity shots

It works a treat. Fingers crossed this does too, remember and post the results :)

 

[Alanc16]

It's been about 3 hours now and there's no sign of it reacting any ideas?

 

[EskiBrew]

The preservatives might stop the yeast - but 3 hours is nothing :thumb:
report back same time tomorrow night :

 

[GREBO75]

yeah, check for preservatives etc.

Also you might need to add some yeast nutrient, not sure the yeasties are gonna get much from the skittles apart from the sugar :)

 

[Alanc16]

Yeast was all killed off, been 30 hours now and it's built no pressure whatsoever anyway I can kick start it?

 

[oldbloke]

What weight of skittles altogether? Sour Skittles are about 72% sugar, how mjuch sugar have you got in there? Maybe it's been eaten without troubling the airlock!

 

[Alanc16]

2 large bags, not entirely sure what weight

 

[GREBO75]

Hmm, about 42g of sugar per 50g of skittles, so they ahve plenty of sugar.

Ingredients are :- Sugar, Corn Syrup, Citric Acid, Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil, Apple Juice from Concentrate, Tapioca Dextrin, Modified Corn Starch, Natural and Artificial Flavours, Ascorbic Acid *Vitamin C), Colours (Red 40 Lake, Blue 1 Lake, Blue 2 Lake, Yellow 5 Lake, Yellow 6 Lake, Red 40, Blue 1, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Titanium Dioxide), Sodium Citrate, Carnauba Wax

Only thing i can see there that might kill the yeasties is the titanium dioxide. So I guess either it's that or you need some nutirent cos there's bugger all minerals and vitamins in there.

 

[Jeltz]

and apparently raisins can be used as a yeast nutrient.

 

[Alanc16]

But if the yeast has already been killed off nutrients would restart it

 

[simonkidder]

How about boil the whole wort for 20mins to cool off any preservatives, once cooled check gravity and get it to the gravity you want by adding more sugar or water. Then re pitch yeast. That should do the job