Making Vodka - Advice Anyone

[RichoKidd]

It's legal for places to sell bongs but is it legal to use them to smoke weed?

Same principal

 

[CSP]

I know this because i brew beer, I've been doing it from a young age because my dad used to do it as well, so it was a bit of a father and son hobby. The reason why i was unsure is because it's pretty obvious what you intend on making if you buy a beer kit, all the yeast and other ingredients are provided in the kit, you just need sugar and water. How is this any different from giving an underage person a packet of rollies with some tally-Ho's, you've given him everything he needs to make a cigarette, he just hasn't assembled it yet.

If you think that's the same, then you've got issues. Beer isn't beer (let alone alcohol) in it's raw ingredients. Tobacco is tobacco it all it's forms!

 

[Deutscher]

Can't believe this thread still here and being discussed.

Can you measure the Methanol?
Say after you've taken the 50-100ml heads, can you measure how much Methanol is actually in it?

 

[cracker]

i was going to do this while ago but lost interest... if your going to do it dont get caught, which shouldnt be the hardest thing in the world.

 

[Deutscher]

I've already decided not to do it.
I'll make some Beer instead.
But when I researched I found it quite interesting and then the whole Methanol makes you go blind business.
so was wondering how people overcome that issue, if just disregarding the heads is enough and how much to take away etc.

 

[boordy_23]

I've already decided not to do it.
I'll make some Beer instead.
But when I researched I found it quite interesting and then the whole Methanol makes you go blind business.
so was wondering how people overcome that issue, if just disregarding the heads is enough and how much to take away etc.

I have a heavy chemistry background. It's hard to do properly without an intermediate chemistry base and understanding of organic chem. I've done it in practicals and the time and effort it takes to create only very small quantities of product is hardly worth the outcome + it can be dangerous if you don't know what your actually distilling off let alone the volatility of the chemicals you are creating + the need for high quality equipment and constant testing. e. I know you already said you decided not to do it, but wanted to add my two cents.

 

[cracker]

love too get into organic chemistry facinates the **** out of me for some reason.

when i looked into doing it i was more in the way off looking at something you could burn...eg fuel which is illegal to do but meh (all fun organic chemistry is illegal)
so wasnt so concerned about the whole drinkable blindness factor, although now i have something to read about tonight.

 

[cracker]

Alcohol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"ethanol, C2H5OH, with the ethane backbone. Ethanol has been produced and consumed by humans for millennia, in the form of fermented and distilled alcoholic beverages. It is a clear flammable liquid that boils at 78.4 °C"

"the simplest alcohol is methanol, CH3OH, , with a slightly lower boiling point (64.7 °C"

should be able too evaporate the methanol from the ethanol due to the diff boiling points?
or am i miles off

 

[Deutscher]

Alcohol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"ethanol, C2H5OH, with the ethane backbone. Ethanol has been produced and consumed by humans for millennia, in the form of fermented and distilled alcoholic beverages. It is a clear flammable liquid that boils at 78.4 °C"

"the simplest alcohol is methanol, CH3OH, , with a slightly lower boiling point (64.7 °C"

should be able too evaporate the methanol from the ethanol due to the diff boiling points?
or am i miles off

My understanding:
64C for Methanol (wood alcohol), 78C for Ethanol. So when you boil your Still, you take away the heads (first 50mls for 10L wash (I think) (acetone, methanol, ethyl acetate).

 

[Deutscher]

....Hangovers

There appears to be a relationship between the likelihood of getting a hangover and how dark the alcohol is.

The color means that the alcohol has more junk in it. The darker color is somehow reflecting the level of congeners. So more clear-colored alcohols, like vodka and gin, are less likely to give you a hangover than a darker-colored alcohol, like a whiskey or a scotch, bourbon or brandy.