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> For example, I think a lot of us don’t want to sit in front of a still for 30 minutes waiting for it to come up to temperature at the beginning of a distillin
by 01100011 1y ago
> For example, I think a lot of us don’t want to sit in front of a still for 30 minutes waiting for it to come up to temperature at the beginning of a distilling day.
Idk, I find driving a still to be pleasurable. To each their own.
Hot ethanol seems to have the refractive index to make it sparkle like a diamond. I recommend trying distilling if you like to brew things. It's a fun hobby.
- Loughla 1y agoI have always wanted to set up an old timey whisky still in my woods on the creek. I have no idea how to make a still. Any way you could point me toward a reliable source for how to build and operate one? I don't trust the results from blind googling anymore.
- hidingfearful 1y agolooking for the snarky link between "blind googling" and blindness caused by drinking improperly distilled alcohol.
- margalabargala 1y ago> blindness caused by drinking improperly distilled alcohol. This isn't actually a thing. You will die of normal ethanol poisoning well before consuming enough methanol to cause blindness when drinking alcohol you made from distilling something you fermented. The blindness thing is some nicely placed Prohibition-era propaganda combined with the addition of methanol to alcohol-containing products that managed to make its way into the public psyche.
- jakubmazanec 1y agoRelated: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Czech_Republic_methanol_poisonings https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Czech_Republic_methanol...
- 01100011 1y agoThese sorts if incidents are caused by adding methanol by choice, not by methanol resulting from the brewing process.
- 01100011 1y agohttps://homedistiller.org/forum/ https://homedistiller.org/forum/