Adulterated Liquor Kills at Least 34 During Mother’s Day Festivities (Mexico)

Mexico News Daily ^ | Wednesday, May 13, 2020

[Jeff Chandler]

audio only CD, which I'm guessing are songs from the show?

I bought the album when it came out in '73. They have a DVD, but the quality is poor. Buy the CD.

The Woodshuck Festival: Three Days of Peace, Love, and Death. Some very funny songs, performed by John Belushi, Christopher Guest, Chevy Chase, etc. back before SNL and all that.

Parodies of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Bob Dylan, John Denver, Joan Baez, Joe Cocker, James Taylor, etc.

[Polynikes]

“when Moonshiners would run a still, they would throw out the first gallon or so of product because the methanol comes out of the batch first”

Basically true if you are running a BIG still. For smaller home rigs a shot glass suffices to take off the methanol. It smells like paint thinner, because it is. Ethanol boils off at ~173.1. Once it starts running your ok. Brandy has a high content of methanol and other cogeners by nature. That's why you get horrible headaches with it.

My guess is the deaths were not from methanol. Probably in manufacturing as in adding something like ethylene glycol.

[Mariner]

Only hundredths of a percent, and the good stuff is thousandths of percent.

It’s illegal if over .04%.

[datura]

The light-ends come off of a still early - around 180 degrees F - and burn your gums quite badly. In a normal 20 gallon run of mash, toss the first pint, or better yet save it for hand sanitizer. By the time the pot reaches 190, the light ends are gone.

Typical light-ends contain some toluene, obviously methanol, and an entire range of cyclic hydrocarbons that really mess with our CNS.

For best results, take the entire first run (minus the light-ends), dilute it with 2:1 mix of distilled water, and run it again for cleanliness and pure flavor.

I don’t quite understand how continuous flow multi-plate stills manage to separate out the light-ends unless they can pull product from the top plates selectively. Just a simple shine enthusiast, not a pro, so fractional distillation is above my pay grade.

[Dalberg-Acton]

The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences.

[Robert DeLong]

I didn’t see an DVD, they must have ceased producing them. Okay so the CD is parody songs. Thanks. 8>)

[DiogenesLamp]

I bow to your superior knowledge on the subject.

[DiogenesLamp]

I am beginning to think I acquired the knowledge about dumping the methanol by reading some of your commentary several months ago. Did you by chance discuss this earlier in the year, or perhaps late last year. Your name looks familiar.

[Jeff Chandler]

I think Pizza Man, a parody of oldies, is my favorite, although Papa Was A Running Dog Lackey of the Bourgeoisie by the Motown Manifestos is a close second.

[TexasGator]

Beer and wine do not have the methanol removed. so the concentration of methanol must be OK per the total alcohol. If the distillation process does not concentrate the methanol the drinker is getting the same dose assuming equal alcohol consumed.

Just my thoughts not backed up by research.