As punishment you'll have to drink a glass, down in one.
85% home distilled Polish Spirit
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User169
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There won't be any fermentation going on in this, but you can get over 15% these days. White Labs sell a high gravity yeast which they say will get you to 25%!
Turdus philomelos
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mybike
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Usually by people talking about it on a social media site.
jefmcg
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I don't think that would work. I had a bottle of vodka in the freezer, and that became oily. No ice formed from the 55% water. Similarly with fortified wine, that was like a rich slurpee.
I once accidentally froze a bottle of wine, that turned into a giant popsicle the broke the bottle. Binned it, of course, but I don't remember there being a puddle of pure alcohol in the freezer.
Gravity Aided
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Heat the alcohol and water mix, whatever that might be, to 177 degrees. Alcohol boils at that point. First, you want to heat to 155 for a while, to boil off your methanol, or red dragon, or snake juice, or blindy. Put this in your Trangia for fuel, it's just like fuel for Drag Racers. Then heat up to about 177, and boil off your alcohol after cleaning your still, that'll be your run. What's left will be your water and trace elements. That's how I recall the making of it. I could be wrong on a few counts here.
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User169
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It does work. Eisbocks are made this way. Brewdog sell a beer which is about 40% using ab industrial ice cream maker.
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
Good thing there aren't any HMRC inspectors on cyclechat, and that this is a top-secret private thread not visible to the general public then.
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
Steeping flavouring in gin or vodka, with sugar to taste, is a pretty effective way of getting a rather nice liqueur or flavoured spirit.
I'd have thought that as long as you value time at more than about a fifth of minimum wage distilling your own isn't a very cost-effective way of getting spirits in this country. Own-brand vodka or gin costs about £15 a litre and is just as effective at getting you drunk as a home-distilled spirit which will take hours of effort - more if you brew the alochol from scratch.
raleighnut
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Gravity Aided
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Couldn't he have just used brown sugar and molasses, and made rum straight off?
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Check out this guy, he shows you, on his YouTube Channel, how to make all sorts of dangerous things. Better living, through chemistry.
Bodhbh
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You distill booze, it removes ethanol it from the rest of the gunk...sugar, flavour compounds, bad alcohols.
You chill it, it removes the water via freezing and leaves the rest with the ethanol. You have 20% sickly sweet hangover water. And it's not very efficient at partitioning the water and alcohol and you loose alot.
slowmotion
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slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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- lost somewhere
Thank you @User. I can see why Popcorn Sutton chose the great outdoors.
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Gravity Aided
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Yeah, ifn i'm gonna run a still, I'd wanna run it in the briar patch...
The revenooers hate briars.
