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To: Tucsonican
The problem with home distilling isn’t so much the distilling as it is the aging. Not everyone’s wife wants a rack of whisky barrels in the living room for 5-15 years.

The real problem with home distilling is the risk of fire and explosion from pure ethanol fumes.

14 posted on 04/10/2026 4:49:24 PM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker

“Angel’s share.”


21 posted on 04/10/2026 4:59:04 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker

& there’s going blind from The methanol toxicity


28 posted on 04/10/2026 5:18:11 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness)
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