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Bath tub gin: Anyone ever do this?
Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:49 pm
by killyourself_Archive
i brew beer at home, though that's still miles away from distilling. maybe some day, as the beginning of the process is vaguely similar.
Bath tub gin: Anyone ever do this?
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:01 am
by Tommy Alpha_Archive
MrFood wrote: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.
SHIT! When was this?
Bath tub gin: Anyone ever do this?
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:08 am
by Mandroid20_Archive
1) My last name translates to "little maltster."
2) My grandpa went to prison for moonshining during prohibition.
3) I grew up around wine making and brewing with my hippie parents. I met my best friend for life at a home brewers' party when we were two years old. I think that we may have been drinking a bit.
The only real question is, "why haven't you been making gin in your bathtub for the past ten years, Amanda?"
Bath tub gin: Anyone ever do this?
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:11 am
by B_M_L_Archive
Bath tub gin: Anyone ever do this?
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:13 am
by Heeby Jeeby_Archive
Never made it but I've drank the Irish equivalent, poitÃn and homemade Polish vodka from a jam jar.
Wouldn't do it myself for the poisoning reasons given above. I always made sure to let someone else do the initial drinking. Half an hour in if they are still breathing, walking and seeing shit, I join in.
Bath tub gin: Anyone ever do this?
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:27 am
by Tommy Alpha_Archive
MrFood wrote:Must've been around 2004-05.
Why? Were you wondering why business dried up?
Baboom!
Nah, I just thought I would have heard about it. That kind of news tends to get spread about, but I was still up at uni at that time.
Bath tub gin: Anyone ever do this?
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 3:16 pm
by turnbullac_Archive
no, but I really want to make my own grappa
Bath tub gin: Anyone ever do this?
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 3:48 pm
by lemur68_Archive
Mandroid2.0 wrote:1) My last name translates to "little maltster."
This is your new nickname.
I'm not suggesting it. I'm telling you.
Bath tub gin: Anyone ever do this?
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 4:07 pm
by Rachi_Archive
I brewed "Rocket Fuel" one summer when we had the biggest Tangerine growth spurt on our trees.
It was a wax lyrical Vodka/Tangerine christmas on the hammock.
Do it C McG! Just don't blow anything up.....
Bath tub gin: Anyone ever do this?
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 8:55 pm
by yaledelay_Archive
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...