Posted on 11/22/2024 11:59:21 AM PST by BenLurkin
Thanks for the explanations. It sounds like the distillation columns in refineries where different weights of product are drawn off from the column at different elevations.
Heartbreaking security cameras from inside the shelter show the girls being transported to the hospital, one by one, on the back of motorcycles.
Hostel manager Duong Duc Toan, who served the girls the Laotian vodka, claimed that it was not his Tiger Vodka that made the girls sick.
Toan said he bought the alcohol from a certified distributor and insisted that neither he nor his staff had contaminated it.
He said the drinks, a gesture of hospitality, were served to about 100 guests and the lodge had not received any other complaints.
Hostel manager and bartender Duong Duc Toan (pictured), who served the girls the Laotian vodka, claimed that the Tiger Vodka was not what made them sick.
In the distilling process, methanol has a lower Vaporization temperature than ethanol and thus is the first thing (heads) out of the still along with some other nasties. Good distillers carefully monitor the temperature and composition of the distillate. The goal is to separate the heads from the more desirable ethanol. the heads are discarded or used for windshield wiper fluid. Distillers that fail to do this deliver their customers a product that can blind and kill.
Good explanation. Thank you.
We find comfort and solace in knowing that Holly brought so much joy and happiness to so many people, and that she died doing what she loved, drinking herself into oblivion, which she did with regularity and evidently insufficient discrimination.”
Ginger Jake comes to mind.
A sad story.
If you can’t trust Laotian moonshine in a third world dump hostel, what can you trust?
I’d never heard of “Ginger Jake.” Thanks for the interesting info.
Didn’t this happen in the Dominican Republic a couple years ago?
A couple died after drinking some no name liquor that was FREE with the rooms/meals/all you can drink package.
Good kitty!
Could have been the ice. When I lived in Thailand he did not drink the local water or have local ice cubes in whatever drink you opened from a bottle and that was years ago but I don’t imagine it’s really gotten any better as far as water conditioning goes.
Marks Laos off the visit list....
They shoulda BYOB instead of the Laosy stuff.
“I had a little too much Russian vodka”
I got drunk on Vodka with a camp manager on the Zhupanova River at 6AM before that day’s float fishing, Russians are insane but I liked them since I’m insane too.
This video was shot on the trip for Ted Nugent’s Spirit of the Wild show. I don’t know it if ever got shown. Those shows have hundreds “in the can”. I know one guy who has 40 in the can himself for American Sportsman.
Giant Rainbow Trout: https://vimeo.com/221324022
Yeah the DR and some other island IIRC.
BYOB!
I was there in 2020. It’s a tourist trap on the Mekong River. Lots of outdoor activities.
Probably my least favorite place in Laos.
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