I have always wanted to set up an old timey whisky still in my woods on the creek. I have no idea how to make a still.
Any way you could point me toward a reliable source for how to build and operate one? I don't trust the results from blind googling anymore.
Re:Open Source Distilling
by hidingfearful on Friday June 06, 2025 @11:01AM
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looking for the snarky link between "blind googling" and blindness caused by drinking improperly distilled alcohol.
Re:Open Source Distilling
by margalabargala on Friday June 06, 2025 @02:04PM
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> blindness caused by drinking improperly distilled alcohol.
This isn't actually a thing. You will die of normal ethanol poisoning well before consuming enough methanol to cause blindness when drinking alcohol you made from distilling something you fermented.
The blindness thing is some nicely placed Prohibition-era propaganda combined with the addition of methanol to alcohol-containing products that managed to make its way into the public psyche.
Re:Open Source Distilling
by jakubmazanec on Sunday June 08, 2025 @05:56PM
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These sorts if incidents are caused by adding methanol by choice, not by methanol resulting from the brewing process.
Idk, I find driving a still to be pleasurable. To each their own.
Hot ethanol seems to have the refractive index to make it sparkle like a diamond. I recommend trying distilling if you like to brew things. It's a fun hobby.