Methanol poisoning stories in the news almost exclusively result from people trying to sell denatured or industrial alcohol. The biggest risk in home distilling is fire.
Seems like these sorts of "yes it could be unsafe in theory but the reality of physics and incentives make this mostly irrelevant" type things get missed far too often certain parts of the internet to be coincidence.
That said, the fact that it dropped on a weekend did it no favors the first time around.
My grandpa drank a shot of schnapps every night and called it his medicine. He never once got methanol poisoning. I thought it was a euphemism but apparently he was actually taking an antidote prophylactically.
> [Judge Edith Jones] also said that under the government’s logic, Congress could criminalize virtually any in-home activity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich
The Supreme Court somehow held that the feds can regulate what you do in your own home (in this case, growing marijuana for personal use) because it could have a butterfly effect on the interstate price. (Constitutionally, the feds can only regulate _interstate_ commerce.)
Dashboard: https://imgur.com/a/so7iZJX
Sanitizer run: https://imgur.com/a/iWDlNfb
Quite a lot of fun actually.
joshstrange•1h ago
ckemere•1h ago
(Except for relevant connections around sharing your creations with neighbors and/or internationally inspired novel spirits.)
wing-_-nuts•29m ago
If you air dropped me into a random village in Africa I doubt I could 'code for cassava' but I could almost certainly make a living if I knew how to set up a basic pot still and safely create booze.
a_conservative•15m ago