Is it possible that the juice actually
fermented on its own?

yep, happens all the time. and there WAS alcohol in it I guarantee.

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billb
"At my comp" wrote in message
...
This is very odd and I realize it probably sounds like a joke, but I
just found an unusual bottle of old Welch’s grape juice with foam!
(I was cleaning and rearranging things in my room a couple months ago
and I accidentally left it in my closet.) The bottle seemed to bulge a
little and there was a pressure like gas when I opened it! I took a
taste and it seemed like a thick and dark sparkling juice/soda, but no
taste of alcohol (unless it is masked by the fizz?) I know that I did
not put anything in the bottle.

This is very odd and I realize it probably sounds like a joke, but I
just found an unusual bottle of old Welch’s grape juice with foam!
(I was cleaning and rearranging things in my room a couple months ago
and I accidentally left it in my closet.) The bottle seemed to bulge a
little and there was a pressure like gas when I opened it! I took a
taste and it seemed like a thick and dark sparkling juice/soda, but no
taste of alcohol (unless it is masked by the fizz?) I know that I did
not put anything in the bottle. Is it possible that the juice actually
fermented on its own?

Yes there was alcohol. the common way to make homemade root beer is to
slightly ferment the syrup in the bottle so that it fizzes. You end up with
a 1% root beer.

Ray

"billb" wrote in message
.. .
Is it possible that the juice actually
fermented on its own?

yep, happens all the time. and there WAS alcohol in it I guarantee.

--
billb
"At my comp" wrote in message
...
This is very odd and I realize it probably sounds like a joke, but I
just found an unusual bottle of old Welch's grape juice with foam!
(I was cleaning and rearranging things in my room a couple months ago
and I accidentally left it in my closet.) The bottle seemed to bulge a
little and there was a pressure like gas when I opened it! I took a
taste and it seemed like a thick and dark sparkling juice/soda, but no
taste of alcohol (unless it is masked by the fizz?) I know that I did
not put anything in the bottle.

I would think that you have an old bottle of pasturized grape juice, probably with a bacterial growth. Not a weak bottle of wine.

EEeeww....

Would someone explain this to me? I have never seen professionally
bottled juice ferment on its own.

aqueous sugar and yeast in the air.

I realize that wine has been made
naturally without convenient yeast we can use today, but how could this
have happened without all of the natural things that are good for
starting like crushed skins and pulp?


what is this, innocence of youth??



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billb
"At my comp" wrote in message
...
Ray Calvert wrote:
Yes there was alcohol. the common way to make homemade root beer is to
slightly ferment the syrup in the bottle so that it fizzes. You end up
with
a 1% root beer.

Ray

"billb" wrote in message
.. .

Is it possible that the juice actually

fermented on its own?

yep, happens all the time. and there WAS alcohol in it I guarantee.

--
billb
"At my comp" wrote in message
...

This is very odd and I realize it probably sounds like a joke, but I
just found an unusual bottle of old Welch's grape juice with foam!
(I was cleaning and rearranging things in my room a couple months ago
and I accidentally left it in my closet.) The bottle seemed to bulge a
little and there was a pressure like gas when I opened it! I took a
taste and it seemed like a thick and dark sparkling juice/soda, but no
taste of alcohol (unless it is masked by the fizz?) I know that I did
not put anything in the bottle.

Ray Calvert wrote:
Yes there was alcohol. the common way to make homemade root beer is to
slightly ferment the syrup in the bottle so that it fizzes. You end up with
a 1% root beer.

Ray

"billb" wrote in message
.. .

Is it possible that the juice actually

fermented on its own?

yep, happens all the time. and there WAS alcohol in it I guarantee.

--
billb
"At my comp" wrote in message
...

This is very odd and I realize it probably sounds like a joke, but I
just found an unusual bottle of old Welch's grape juice with foam!
(I was cleaning and rearranging things in my room a couple months ago
and I accidentally left it in my closet.) The bottle seemed to bulge a
little and there was a pressure like gas when I opened it! I took a
taste and it seemed like a thick and dark sparkling juice/soda, but no
taste of alcohol (unless it is masked by the fizz?) I know that I did
not put anything in the bottle.





Would someone explain this to me? I have never seen professionally
bottled juice ferment on its own. I realize that wine has been made
naturally without convenient yeast we can use today, but how could this
have happened without all of the natural things that are good for
starting like crushed skins and pulp?