MrFood wrote:A friend of mine became obsessed with the idea of brewing his own vodka.
He actually started doing it, and got quite into it. He then got to a stage in the process where some by-product of the distilling process needed to be syphoned off - or something - and he read that if this phase was not done properly, the drink would actually be fucking lethal. Like - lights out, you're dead - lethal.
Around the same time it was in the local news around Peckham (SE London) that a bunch of kids had been killed from drinking knock-off vodka that they'd bought from some local chancer.
So he aborted the process, for fear of killing or blinding all his friends. Which I suppose was quite nice of him.
Ok like I said I have not done this, however after drinking from a EA persons still I did some research and you would have to be not so bright to poison yourself by brewing bad booze, basically all you have to do is pay attention, and not drink while running the still
http://homedistiller.org/blueflame.htm
the dangerous hooch boils off at a much lower temp, you drain it off an you are safe, I believe that the gov just wants everyone to think it it dangerous so we don't all start brewing our own...
Ty Webb wrote:
You need to stop pretending that this is some kind of philosophical choice not to procreate and just admit you don't wear pants to the dentist.