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[shaunous]

Sorry mate. That's absolute rubbish.


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You are!

I thought methanol turned milky in water

So did I.
The **** we distilled in PNG certainly did, but we were not using an elaborate set up, and never drank a drop. Our wash was wildly fermented pineapples, banana's and sugar fruit (passion fruit). They were already kinda doing it, I was just making it a little safer for them to drink.

 

[shaunous]

In Eastern Europe the traditional stills are used for making home brew plum brandy, slivovitz etc. The plums are crushed and then fermented "on the skins" in 40gal drums, not pressed first. Then the fermented plum marc is poured straight into the still to produce the brandy. They even grow a special cultivar of plums for making brandy. The still is shared around the village so everyone can make their own brandy. Fascinating tradition, you can see it on youtube.

The Serbs I worked with always told me this, their English was real poor, as they were still living there, but they gave me a heap of photos I've still got on a hard drive somewhere. Crazy massive stills and open top drums everywhere.

 

[bradsbrew]

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