Pineapple Honey Dew Enzymes Drink – 1 week later!

934 days ago

Guys, it has been 1 week since I started on the Pineapple Honey Enzymes drink. Everyday I would shake the fermentation jar and try to mix the fruit pieces and the resulting liquid so that no mold would form on the fruits. I guess the reason is that the liquid will prevent the formation of mold on the surface. Make sense. But I wonder why are we worried about mold in such an environment? More likely the problem would be bad bacteria and those acetobacter bacteria. The problem with my last batch of enzymes drink, I thought had a full blown (white) mold problem. But I now believe that it isn’t mold at all but yeast! Beer brewers will face the same thing when they start their brew – there will be a sudden increase in the amount of yeast (which can grow at the surface of the wort) and it looks exactly like what I have seen in the fermentation container for my enzymes drink. Of course, I could be wrong.

Above is a picture of the beer wort after a few hours with the yeast added. This is what the initial growth of yeast looks like when brewing beer. It is when the yeast grows tremendously at the beginning when it adjusts themselves to the environment depending on the amount of food, oxygen, nutrients and so on. Those brown stuff are remains of barley malt, sugar and hop oils.

Anyway, this is what my Pineapple and Honey Dew Enzymes drink look like after 1 week.

Yes, bubbles forming! They are all trapped between the fruit pieces. Give them a little shake and the bubbles will escape. Carbon Dioxide is one of the by-products of the good bacteria eating the sugars in the fruit-sugar mixture. And this is definitely a good sign. It means that the bacteria is doing work and making this drink probiotic. We all know how important it is to consume probiotic supplements right? Well, this one is even cheaper and tastier. Furthermore, it comes with live enzymes!  (Oh, did I mention that it is easy to do as well?) So, go ahead and make yourself some enzymes drink!

Ahhh….the liquid we call Enzymes Drink. Malaysians seem to love them a lot. Singaporeans are just too tired to bother. Don’t you just love living in such a hectic society? Anyway, this time I had used white rock sugar instead of those brownish ones. And it looks exacttly like pineapple juice. No more complains that it looks horrible from my colleagues anymore! I have used way more pineapples than honey dew, so I expect the taste to be more “pineapple” than honey dew. The Honey Dew I used isn’t that great as compared to the pineapple. The pineapple however was very sweet and aromatic.

Anyway, I have added a little too much sugar to the mixture this time. If I am not wrong, I added 500g of rock sugar to this relatively small batch. In the beginning, there was this thick layer of syrupy sugar settling at the bottom of the container. Took me a few days of constantly shaking the bottle to get it dissolved into the liquid. Well, lesson learned – don’t add too much sugar. But it can actually be a good thing because the sugar acts as a kind of preservative.

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