> Enjoy.
> BTW do you have any recipes for making your own alcohol?
> If you do mail them to me at dbaker[at]rie.net.au
> My name is Liz.
Liz-
A lot of people have asked the "can you make your own alcohol" question but
no one's answered it, so I will. Yes, it is possible to make your own alcohol.
Yes, it is very easy, given the right equipment. That is where the trouble
starts. The way to do it is using a mash (pretty much the stuff used to make
whiskey) in a glass beaker over a flame. The beaker is attached to a
fractional distillation column, which is a glass tube packed with glass beads.
As the mash is heated, the alcohol and water in it evaporate and rise into the
column, where the water condenses on the beads while the alcohol continues, is
run through a cooling column, and drips into another beaker. Ah, the joys of
high school chemistry (all of two years ago <sigh>) with one of the best
chemistry teachers ever. That's the best I can recall it, and I think we got
a yield of a few mL of alcohol (but 99ure) from about a hundred grams of mash
- not very efficient.
Sorry to disappoint. Go out and buy a bottle of Everclear, it'll be much
cheaper.
Best of luck,
JM