turtlespeed 226 #1 June 17, 2004 Ok - so I did a little experiment and made a "cooking pot" but I have questions that are unanswered. PM me for details I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Slappie 9 #2 June 17, 2004 C'mon turtle spill the guts here.. Let us see how bad your brew came out. Was it drinkable? "Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 226 #3 June 17, 2004 See that's the question - I don't know if it's safe to drink.(does the job though - whooo- does it do the job)I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydiver30960 0 #4 June 17, 2004 Good to hear things worked! Me and my buds never worried too much about methanol because we were lazy bastards who just distilled what somebody else had already fermented or distilled before us, so we figured that if it made it onto the store shelves it had to be REASONABLY safe. Yeah, yeah, yeah, everybody just hold off on the rants about ignorance of the American consumer... BUT to answer your question, I did a yahoo search on "methanol in moonshine" and it comes back with a BUNCH of good sites. www.homedistiller.org/methanol.htm says: Quote Will home-distilled alcohol make me go blind ? Not if you're carefull. This pervasive question is due to moonshine lore, which abounds with myths of blindness, but few actual documented cases. The concern is due to the presence of methanol (wood alcohol), an optic nerve poison, which can be present in small amounts when fermenting grains or fruits high in pectin. This methanol comes off first from the still, so it is easily segregated and discarded. A simple rule of thumb for this is to throw away the first 50 mL (reflux still) you collect (per 20 L mash used), or 100-200 mL from a pot still. There is no safe way of denaturing methylated spirits. The other impurities, which form the tails (known as cogeners or fusel oils) are quite a complex collection, but mostly just smell/taste bad rather than are actually unsafe towards you. Hope this helps... Elvisio "bring the liquid lightning to the WFFC" Rodriguez Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
