Posted on 09/17/2011 4:59:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A British inventor has caused his house to blow up by trying to make homemade vodka.
Lawrence Toms, 44, from Tynewydd, Wales, was brewing the alcohol when the explosion occurred, which led to four fire engines and a water bowser being called to his home.
South Wales Police think the incident was caused by homemade alcohol - and a spokesman said: "The windows were blown out of the property and it was lucky no one in the street was injured.
Hold my Vodka please....
Absolut Devastation
Molotov Vodka — Lay Waste to your Mind
Hold mah Perrier, please!
Ironic if that blew about the same time he was sampling.
Kind of like ‘doin the deed’ and an earthquake and ‘the big O’ occur simultaneously.
You can’t let your hole get plugged up, words to live by with a moonshine still and in general. In moonshine stills it can cause an explosion, a still is like a pressure cooker.
There’s 100 proof, 200 proof, and poof the windows got blown out proof.
Back to the drawing board.
Granny would be proud.
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS9oxJRFGq39iE1MLk5-87JF4LZhzFUGibUzp8bgTTe1-KgnTVAEg
If you’re going to distill alcohol or make essential oils, there are a lot of alternatives as far as stills go. One of the best designs for personal use is the column still. Here are some examples:
http://homedistiller.org/photos-sold.htm
Unfortunately home distillation is generally illegal in the US, which means that the hard part is getting the quality distilling apparatus.
As the Prohibition saying went....If you can light a wick in it...it’s done. Must have been good stuff to blow up a house! LOL
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Does he eat them or bring them to you?
The apparatus is legal, using it is not.
Neither. He kills them and plays with them so he can leave them to get stinky for rolling on.
Wait ... what?
I had a buddy who, years ago, had a winemaking operation in his basement. His neighbors were involoved, and he handled the wine needs for the entire neighborhood. People would bring back old wine and he’d cook it down for the alcohol on a 3 burner gas stove he built just for that purpose. One day that contraption exploded when he was cooking down a batch, blowing off the entire backside of his house. No one was hurt.
Nice. For him, that is.
I hate it, when that happens!
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