Making your own alcohol ?
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TheWinterSnow
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the elctricity is most liekly used to heat the water up enough to sterilize it and the container that is is in from foreign wild yeast which will give alcohol a nasty taste and could make it lethal if you distilled it.
There are many videos on how to brew beer and distill hard alcohol on youtube, If you are intersted in beer, Northern Brewer and Brewing TV are both great channels.
There are many videos on how to brew beer and distill hard alcohol on youtube, If you are intersted in beer, Northern Brewer and Brewing TV are both great channels.
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John_C
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Homebrew cider and beer is pretty easy and safe.
Home distilling has the potential to be deadly, probably worth avoiding unless you either really know what you're doing
Home distilling has the potential to be deadly, probably worth avoiding unless you either really know what you're doing
Here people make "Maria Louca" ("Crazy Mary") in jail.
They mix water, rice, yeast and sugar (plus fruits or coffee to add some flavour) in plastic bottles and hide it in a hole. A source of light provides the necessary heat, and they slowly turn the caps to release the gas. The whole process takes 6 days. For the distillation they put the liquid on a gallon and heat it using a scisor plugged in the power outlet. As the alcohol boils faster than the water, it quickly turns into vapor that goes to a serpentine and becomes the beverage.
The native indians also had a beverage called Cauim. The virgin girls of the tribe would chew manioc and spit it on a jar. That shit would brew by itself and that was it, no distillation/electricity needed.
They mix water, rice, yeast and sugar (plus fruits or coffee to add some flavour) in plastic bottles and hide it in a hole. A source of light provides the necessary heat, and they slowly turn the caps to release the gas. The whole process takes 6 days. For the distillation they put the liquid on a gallon and heat it using a scisor plugged in the power outlet. As the alcohol boils faster than the water, it quickly turns into vapor that goes to a serpentine and becomes the beverage.
The native indians also had a beverage called Cauim. The virgin girls of the tribe would chew manioc and spit it on a jar. That shit would brew by itself and that was it, no distillation/electricity needed.
TheWinterSnow
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Its still safer than prodding around a guitar amp. The myth of distilling being dangerous comes from the days of moonshining during the prohibition when uneducated rednecks where cooking the stuff up any way they could including adulterating the liquor with the very chemical that kills people. There is not enough naturally occurring methanol in a sterile and natural fermentation tank to be close to lethal even after the distillation process. And from what I have gathered, there is less Methanol in proper home brewed vodka than there is in the commercial grade, and even poorly brewed homemade has slightly less on average than the commercial grade.
If you use the right materials and keep the equipment sterile, the only real thing you have to worry about is accidentally setting the alcohol on fire as its at first 95% ethanol, the same shit they use in funny cars.
Jind
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Everything you want to know about "Jail House Hooch" including the recipes.
http://www.drunkard.com/issues/11-03/11-03-jailhouse.htm
In all seriousness, while I've never made hard liquor, I've been making beer and wine for quite some time. I brew beer mostly, probably 4 or 5 times a year, almost always have something in a bucket (primary fermentation) and/or another in a carboy (for secondary fermentation) going at most times throughout the year. Have a Baltic Porter in the secondary right now. I do mostly partial mash brewing, as full grain is just a bit too much work and my results have always been great with partial mash so no need to upgrade. Home brewing is a great hobby and pretty easy once you get the hang of it.
http://www.drunkard.com/issues/11-03/11-03-jailhouse.htm
In all seriousness, while I've never made hard liquor, I've been making beer and wine for quite some time. I brew beer mostly, probably 4 or 5 times a year, almost always have something in a bucket (primary fermentation) and/or another in a carboy (for secondary fermentation) going at most times throughout the year. Have a Baltic Porter in the secondary right now. I do mostly partial mash brewing, as full grain is just a bit too much work and my results have always been great with partial mash so no need to upgrade. Home brewing is a great hobby and pretty easy once you get the hang of it.
Notuern
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I used to buy homebrewed vodka from a friend.. it tasted like water, got you drunk as ¤#&%=&(#%& and the hangover was close to none-existent(~60% if i remember it right.).
Then I've tried it from some other people which made me sick for 4-5 days in a row.. fuckin' sucked ass.
TheWinterSnow
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I get you. Liquor is not just pure ethanol and water, there are other small traces of methanol and other compounds that where naturally in the grains/fruit/yeast etc that will have different effects on people.
Hangover and the following days (usually 3-4) has everything to do with the other compounds that are a diuretic which make you pee. You loose water and electrolytes which makes you sick and takes days to restore your body. Ethanol isn't that bad of a diuretic so naturally if you have a properly brewed and distilled liquor you will have less chances of hangover.
Other issues though include the equipment used to make the liquor. Some cheap fuckers will use car radiators as wort chillers which are made with lead and will always have trace amounts of Ethylene Glycol (Antifreeze) as well as other poisonous chemicals that slowly dissolve into the ethanol as it is a natural solvent. That in itself can make you horribly sick and over time cause many illnesses including cancer. All equipment has to be sterile and made of food grade material, even the metal, plastic tubing, pumps and distillation system.
