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trigger_andy

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  1. You’re clearly getting on in years so your memory might be slipping. You can’t find any evidence to back up your claim and blame the internet for that. When I try to give you a plausible explanation you post up a link that backs up everything I previously stated. I’ve spent quite a few years Distilling and I’ll assume you have not. I’ve done a lot of research prior to starting and during my distilling days. I’ve also spent a lot of time with Distillers in Norway who make 1-2000 litre batches. I’ll assume you have not. What you do seem to have is old wives tails and a supposed plethora of links to back up what I can only describe is your baseless and ignorant opinion. Please tell me if I’ve got anything above wrong.
  2. Have you tried a 12-24” length of flexi hose on the end of the outlet? It should direct all the sawdust down the way.
  3. Cracking boards them!
  4. So what’s the point of posting a link that backs up everything I’ve already said? Why not post up something from the plethora of info on what you’re so desperately yet failing to make a point of? The article you pointed out showed that methanol was added to moonshine by some unscrupulous moonshiners to make the moonshine go further, or perhaps it was the law enforcement themselves. That’s basically the same explanation I gave with the lads off-shore potentially added MEG to give their hooch a punch. And I only suggested that based on your old wives story about some riggers waking up blind. But you could be right, the guys in the 70’s could well have been breaking down old pallets and distilling them into Methanol on the pipe deck and drinking that. Sounds far more plausible than making prison hooch in their cabins. [emoji849]
  5. You’ve either not read the article in your own link or you simply don’t understand it. I might not have been laughing at you before but I certainly am now.
  6. I can’t think of one good reason why anyone would intentionally produce wood alcohol (methanol) when they’d have everything on hand to produce Ethanol. Perhaps it was reported later in this edition?
  7. Good call!
  8. Beech for the head, or maple. If he’s really set on a different shaft then some straight grained Ash.
  9. Why are so many willing to subject themselves to £10 an hour considering the skill level and kit required?
  10. I’ve been to see that tree in person. It takes your breath away. Really hope they can be saved.
  11. I don’t think you can travel to the US yet. Think you can from November though.
  12. It’s scandalous that the feel they can offer a wage this insulting with a straight face.
  13. Well done? 🤷‍♂️
  14. If you’re distilling you have to remove the heads and tails anyway. Anyone with a Still knows this. As Methanol has a lower boiling point than Ethanol it’s going to be one of the first spirits off the run. For example, in a 20 litre wash at about 10% ABV you’ll produce a very small amount of methanol. So discarding they first 250mls is more than enough. You’d not take much of the heads or tails anyway, a little each side of the hearts for something with flavour like a Whisky but nothing but hearts for neutral spirits like Vodka. I’ve heard about the off-shore hooch unban legends as well. I still find it very hard to believe. If the lads brewed something like bread or fruit with plenty of sugar they might be able to make a wash at 10%-12% ABV, but I’d expect it to be much lower at around 4-5%. If they drank this the minute quantiles of methanol would not do anything to them, just like the methanol present in your can of beer or glass of wine does nothing to you. They’d need to concentrate the methanol by distilling it and capturing it before it mixed with the other Alcohols produced and have a single person drink that for that person to have an even remote chance of going blind. There is ways to distil off-shore with something like a fish tank heater, a plastic bag and two buckets, but then all the produced alcohols would be mixed as there would be no way to separate out the methanol, Ethanol and all the other fusle alcohols. It would just give them all a bad hangover. Most likely they drank MEG, methanol and Ethylene Glycol which is used heavily off-shore. Either neat or mixed in with their prison hooch to really get the sausage party going.
  15. Methanol is one of the first alcohols to be produced when distilling crops as it has a lower boiling point than Ethanol. Which is why it’s a bit of an old wives tail that drinking moonshine will make you blind. When I was distilling with a Reflux Still (I built a Boka) Ethanol burned with no visible flame. If you look at old F1 vids of re-fueling spills that have caught alight it looks like there is no visible flames at all.
  16. A lovely Turkish Hazel I spotted in the Oslo Botanical Gardens today.
  17. Might have to to pop over to my local estate buddy and see if he has anything. Delivery from Scotland might kill it though.
  18. Never sold or bought a car then?
  19. Then you’d be wrong.
  20. Tell him it’s now £600, but you’ll drop it to £550 as a gesture of goodwill. [emoji16]
  21. I’m feeling left out. Which ironically seems to be the basis of the me too movement
  22. Add me to the list too please. 🤣 You’ve become increasing obnoxious of late and have what seems like a very high opinion of your wokery new line of employment.
  23. An hours drive up to have a look and quite and an hour back again. That’s half a day busted. Not gonna get much else done that day. Then another day to do the job and if there is any complications, ie the window gets damaged it’s on the builder to make right. So I guess you could call that two days and £300 a day. You can put your panties back on now. 😁

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