this shit has a strong after taste and i got it from a food shelf so it could have sat out for months maybe a year lolol i drank some and i feel kind of funky so could it have fermented? :afro:
If juice is fermented, it will be lightly carbonated, have a foamy froth on top and yeast sediment on the bottom. You will also taste alcohol and smell alcohol and yeast. When I start a batch of homebrew wine, it fills the house with the smell of fermentation for the first week.
It's pretty simple to make real alcohol out of juice, actually. I have 22 gallons fermenting right now, and should have another 25 fermenting within a week.
I just finished fermenting 20 gallons of hard strawberry lemonade. Racked it into a carboy last night, and I had an extra 2L that I decided to try right away. Very yummy. I made it using 24 cans of frozen berry punch, 1L bottle pure lemon juice, about 10lbs sugar, water to get up to about 5 gallons total, then topped up sugar to get SG to about 1.110. I added some yeast nutrients and wine yeast.