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Can you do a WTF is potato starch and corn starch video?
LMAO why the fuck is he wearing a mask??
Adam looks like Markiplier as a Dad trying his best.
I am an adult…
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So who else watched this while sipping on some liquor? I was sipping on some scotch 🥃 when this showed up on my feed
So is pump gas in so cal is 10-15% drinkable
In o-chem, we would distill until them temp rose, so I'd imagine another downside of the tail cuts might be additional water content (further diluted). Great video, man. This was super interesting. Easy on that wood alcohol!!
I truly enjoyed the easter egg in the very end! LOL
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If everyone in the media was this logical, educational, level headed, and unbiased… what a wonderful world it could be.
You're an amazing person, thank you sir:)
I’ve never heard that home distilling was illegal but rather that the sale of distilled liquor without a permit is illegal
A question I have is.
What's the difference malt liquor like steel reserve old English hurricane and Colt 45.
Compared to regular beers like Miller Budweiser and Coors.
And why is malt liquor beers much more stronger than regular beers?
I always thought hard liquor were whiskeys vodkas tequilas and so on.
Then compared to like beer or wine..
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If the methanol comes out of the wine, does it mean there was methanol in the wine all along that would be toxic if drank?
You're wrong that your sample was unsafe to drink. It only contains what was in the wine to start with! If the distillate is unsafe to drink, the wine was unsafe too!
You can also concentrate the alcohol by removing the water. Ice wine and beer is made this way.
All the stuff in that little beaker was in the original wine. Why not drink it? If it's not safe to drink, then neither was the wine you distilled it from.
its not fyucell its foozell. the pronounciation for bad alcohol in German.
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With the mask showing the outline of his mouth like that, he sort of resembles a duck.
So is hard seltzer just carbonated vodka water with flavoring?
Amazng great video
Your outros get wilder and wilder, I love it.
Obviously when I'm running my still my idea of "wreckedification" is how wrecked I can get on good shine! 👍
Great episode! 👍
When you realize that liquor is basically distilled beer or fruit juice, and that the distillate is no more than 10 to 15% of what you started with, and that will likely spend some time aging in a barrel, it’s amazing how cheap and delicious whiskey can be!
It looks like it wouldn’t be very cost effective to make your own booze where I live if you’re only making enough for your own consumption. Must be really expensive for a bottle of booze in New Zealand where home distillation is legal!
Regarding the fore and aft of the distillate, you were already going to drink the wine and the distillation process didn’t add poison so you’re fine to drink the distillate. The only way you’d get sick is if you drank enough alcohol to make you sick which would exist in the wine before you distilled it. People poison themselves by distilling questionable things that may contain additives you don’t want by and using questionable equipment that isn’t appropriate for food prep.
if you are distilling store-bought wine, the methanol and other nasties are akready out, though, aren't they? wouldn't this make ur product that you made safe?
Your hand is supposed to warm the brandy
You put too much in the glass
How do you distill wine and get Brandy? I see how you distill wine and get vodka
Drinking distilled water isn't good for survival ultimately, because it dehydrates you. Better than nothing but eventually you'll die if you don't have the extra salts and minerals to supplement.
Actually, the distillate you had in your hands was not poison. You get as much methanol as in the input. You had 2-3 glasses of wine in your flask, the final product will not have more methanol than the content of the 3 glasses or wine.
At a homebrew scale, methanol poisoning is a myth. You will just get a terrible liquor and at worst a bad hangover.
The problem comes when you massively scale up: If you put in hundreds of liters of wine or other alcoholic beverage, the first shot will be loaded with methanol. If you serve that to someone, it is lethal.
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Hi there, I don't normally comment online. But I am about to finish a Master's and move onto a PhD specifically researching aspects of distilled spirits and just wanted to say that I think you did a great job here. Well researched, ignoring the nitpicky nonsense, and easy to understand explanations for a broad overview. Hallmarks of a good educator, keep it up.
~Cheers mate!
Foreshot – throw away. On a 30L run you want to toss the first 100-150ml, it will contain the highest percentage of methanol and other high volatile compounds. Heads – Keep. Head cuts are the purest ethanol cut, if you want a nice clean pure flavoured spirit this is the cut to use. Hearts – middle of the road alcohol. There are off flavours and congeners here, whatever the source is will impart a different flavour, some deireable some not. This cut will need to be processed further, either carbon filtering or multiple distillations.
Funny that he mentioned vodka out of fermented dog turds at 14:18 because that's exactly what some stories claim some people did in the bosnian war, except we don't call it vodka we call it rakija
It's kinda weird that as a Muslim I don't drink but I know so much about alcohol 😅. Thanks Adam.
Cou can make alcoh harder by freezing it
I'm just here for the guns. 💪
Super interesting! I want to know more please! 😀
Making home distilled spirits for personal use is legal in New Zealand. Since your channel has an international audience, you really should add a disclaimer that the legality of things like this depend on where you live
Pretty sure Adam was telling us we should make moonshine
They make it traditional way, that's how.
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19:26 💀
As a fellow Tennessean: hard agree, that is a shit moonshine still setup. I've seen enough copper distillery equipment in my time to know that it takes pretty big equipment to even make a gallon at a time, much less the amounts needed to really push product on a profitable scale. Also you don't have to really worry about it to begin with because cops post prohibition are more likely to ask for a discount than to arrest you if they catch you making moonshine lmao
By the time im done with it, the alcohol's gonna be very, very hard 😏
Adam, it would be much appreciated if you could find the secret recipe for a non gluten bread.
I have an extreme allergy for bread but also an extreme love for it.
It would be nice to know a recipe to cook at home and enjoy a chewy fluffy bread.
Love the content as always.
Damn that's unlucky, you picked the one widespread condenser design that is absolutely terrible for atmospheric distillation.
I'm slightly proud of myself for being able to tell when the sponsor ad was coming up.
Plot twist: Cardinal Spirits is NOT a sponsor for this video
1:33 "And the byproducts they basically poop out include ethanol." Actually, poop is a solid and contains undigested bits of material from the digestive system, while pee is a liquid and contains all the waste products of cells in the body undergoing life functions, including metabolizing sources of chemical energy. Ethanol is a waste product of yeast metabolizing a source of chemical energy. So they're not pooping out the ethanol, they're peeing it out. 😛