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SpanishFly writes, "I have a 'make your own absinthe' kit here, fucking terrified of making it...

"Tell us your stories of when you got so drunk on homemade mead you pissed in the cupboard.
Or tell us about the time you tried to buy wine stabiliser but got chased out of the friendly merchants shop because that compound is used to bash cocaine.
Tell us about the trials and tribulations of not being able to afford 4 cans of strongbow and couldn't brew your own poison so you got pissed on antifreeze and the next day pissed in your own mouth."
Thanks SpanishFly. MAKE THE ABSINTHE

(, Fri 5 Dec 2014, 9:39)
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I distill my own.
plum, apple, pear, cherry, fig. Very basic technique - take fruits, chuck in a barrel (after destoning if necessary) and ferment, decant, distill to 70%BV (my still is also "home brewed") taking care to cut off the heads and tails, water back down to somewhere around 55%.

The result is an evil devil-hooch that fucks you up good and proper.
(, Fri 5 Dec 2014, 15:11, 4 replies)
the heads and tails of what?

(, Fri 5 Dec 2014, 15:17, closed)
heads and tails
The "heads" are the bits of distillate that come out before we're "up to temperature", consisting largely of methanol and a bunch of other assorted crap - the stuff that gives you a rotten fucking headache at best. Throw it away. Likewise the "tails", where % water starts going up.
(, Fri 5 Dec 2014, 15:35, closed)
you can imagine the problem I was having with your terminology.

(, Fri 5 Dec 2014, 20:55, closed)
"Fucked up good and proper" units should replace
all that shit the government formulates to stop us drinking while they discus it over £1200 bottles of wine
(, Fri 5 Dec 2014, 21:57, closed)

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