Fast, Cheap, Booze: Extracting Alcohol

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So I was wondering if you could somehow extract alcohol from cheap common sources of alcohol, like cooking sherry and wine vinegar. How would one accomplish this? If you boil an alcoholic beverage, is the vapor alcohol? Do you think it would be digestable? I just want a cheap drunk, not to go blind.

― Goofy McDook, Tuesday, 16 March 2004 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

NOT AT ALL ADVISABLE: shoot vodka, or give blood before you booze up.
DON'T DO THESE THINGS, THEY WILL AlMOST CERTAINLY RESULT IN VERY TERRIBLE THINGS HAPPENING TO YOU

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

and oh yeah, maybe it's time to talk to someone about your drinking problem.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

You can make a still quite easily, just look in up somewhere. You cook it into steam, which drips through a hose and condenses as it cools.

Are you in prison, by the way?

― andy, Tuesday, 16 March 2004 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Sterno is the way to go.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Why is home distilling dangerous?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.comicraft.com/logos/kaboom.gif

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought drinking it could make you go blind or something.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

that too.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

But why?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

because the Treasury Dept. says so!

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

That was my suspicion.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

And the Super Foxes of the Bradley Sheriff's Dept.

http://www.bradleysheriff.com/images/permit.jpg

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Hoochiemama!

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Home distilling is not dangerous at all, as long as you're making ethol alcohol. Using fruits, sugar, even ketchup (favorite in prison), you can make some unpalatable but safe bathtub gin. (It can be, however, flammable.)

The rumor has to do with nefarious shortcuts in Prohibition-era bathtub gin... additives, etc.

― andy, Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

drinking on 2 hours of sleep is pretty fun.. dunno about how it factors in v. post-giving blood, but i only write about what i know..

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

fourteen years pass...

https://img.tesco.com/Groceries/pi/723/5054402114723/IDShot_225x225.jpg
£2.20 for a 4-pack of 440ml cans of Pear Cider - i bet even Aldi can't beat that. I've got some 7.5kg sacks of basmati rice as well, which I'm going to turn into sake in my bathroom still, before I get started on the hand gel! #BlindDrunkBrexit

― calzino, Thursday, 2 August 2018 22:18 (seven years ago)

I found sake to be easy and fun to make, fwiw

― sleeve, Thursday, 2 August 2018 22:27 (seven years ago)

Did you buy the koji or use something else?

― Yerac, Thursday, 2 August 2018 22:28 (seven years ago)

wow! I was just being daft, but is it really easy to make?

― calzino, Thursday, 2 August 2018 22:29 (seven years ago)

iirc I bought the koji as starter and added regular rice later? it's been at least ten years. not sure if that question was an xp

― sleeve, Thursday, 2 August 2018 22:29 (seven years ago)

it is really easy except for the part where you steam the rice in a sack above boiling water, that's kind of a pain. but once you have everything in your bucket you don't even need to keep it sealed or fanatically sterile like with beer, you just keep a lid on it and stir it once a day, then strain after (2 weeks??)

― sleeve, Thursday, 2 August 2018 22:31 (seven years ago)

Oh, the question was for you.

― Yerac, Thursday, 2 August 2018 22:32 (seven years ago)

simple:

https://food-hacks.wonderhowto.com/how-to/skip-home-brewed-beer-sake-is-easier-make-just-as-good-0160102/

more complicated:

https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/how-to-brew/make-sake-home/

― sleeve, Thursday, 2 August 2018 22:33 (seven years ago)

and then there's this one, which is even simpler but looks like dubious jailhouse hooch:

https://www.homebrewit.com/sake-rice-wine-recipe

― sleeve, Thursday, 2 August 2018 22:33 (seven years ago)

Interesting. Was it drinkable?

― Yerac, Thursday, 2 August 2018 22:39 (seven years ago)

totally! like, really good. I did it with these two friends that I had kind of a DIY brewing group with, we mostly made beer but once we all did sake batches using different kinds of rice, and then had a sake party when it was done.

― sleeve, Thursday, 2 August 2018 22:42 (seven years ago)

and as someone who has lost multiple batches of homebrewed beer to contamination, the low-maintenance aspect of sake was very appealing.

― sleeve, Thursday, 2 August 2018 22:43 (seven years ago)

thanks for that sleeve, I'm quite enthused tbh!

― calzino, Thursday, 2 August 2018 22:44 (seven years ago)

good luck!

― sleeve, Thursday, 2 August 2018 22:44 (seven years ago)

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