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Subject: Making Alcohol
From: JMeer
Posted: Thu Aug 19. 1999, 04:36 UTC
Followup to: "Re: Bailey's"  by Fluffy  (Wed Aug 18. 1999, 23:24 UTC)
> 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


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