[GaryCrow]

Since beer is only about 5% ethanol it seems like it’d take a lot of energy to get distill it for little gain. I’d think there would be much better mashes to start from than beer. It seems like it would cost more to distill it into usable ethanol than the ethanol would be worth.

[Svartalfiar]

Since beer is only about 5% ethanol it seems like it’d take a lot of energy to get distill it for little gain. I’d think there would be much better mashes to start from than beer. It seems like it would cost more to distill it into usable ethanol than the ethanol would be worth.

Yea, it would be much easier to start with a proper recipe for higher-ethanol stuff, instead of trying to distill the 'bad' beer down. They'd be better off doing what the bars by me are doing: Selling super cheap growlers just to get the kegs sold instead of dumped. $20 is $20.

Even dumping it in the park and watering the grass would be more useful for society as a whole vs trying to make beer into hand sanitizer...