Comments on: 8 clever uses for bad beer http://www.fermentarium.com/homebrewing/8-clever-uses-for-bad-beer/ Everything you need to know about beer, wine, and homebrew Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Done that http://www.fermentarium.com/homebrewing/8-clever-uses-for-bad-beer/comment-page-1/#comment-711 Done that Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:23:00 +0000 http://www.fermentarium.com/?p=538#comment-711 Yup.  The amount of fusel alcohols and methyl alcohol in the wash (bad beer) isn't a problem.  A well designed, and run, still will be able to separate these compounds do to the different boiling temps. Even if you didn't separate these compounds and just collected the hole run, you wouldn't get any more methyl alcohol than drinking the bad beer on it's own.  The danger would be if you just collected the methanol, saved it up from multiple batches, and drank it.  It would taste like crap but that is what you would have to do. Some fusel oils and higher alcohols are needed if you want whiskey and running your still right will allow you to control the amounts, and control the hangover.  If you don't have any of the "bad" stuff in the final product it would be vodka.  Aging make a huge difference too. Yup.  The amount of fusel alcohols and methyl alcohol in the wash (bad beer) isn’t a problem.  A well designed, and run, still will be able to separate these compounds do to the different boiling temps.

Even if you didn’t separate these compounds and just collected the hole run, you wouldn’t get any more methyl alcohol than drinking the bad beer on it’s own.  The danger would be if you just collected the methanol, saved it up from multiple batches, and drank it.  It would taste like crap but that is what you would have to do.

Some fusel oils and higher alcohols are needed if you want whiskey and running your still right will allow you to control the amounts, and control the hangover.  If you don’t have any of the “bad” stuff in the final product it would be vodka.  Aging make a huge difference too.

]]> By: Andy http://www.fermentarium.com/homebrewing/8-clever-uses-for-bad-beer/comment-page-1/#comment-67 Andy Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:58:42 +0000 http://www.fermentarium.com/?p=538#comment-67 On the rare occasion I make a bad beer, I pour it in an old bath in a field beside our house and watch my cows drink it.<br>From my deck I sit with a good beer and watch the cows go stupid.<br>I always get a laugh watching them butt heads and skip around like there fairys. On the rare occasion I make a bad beer, I pour it in an old bath in a field beside our house and watch my cows drink it.
From my deck I sit with a good beer and watch the cows go stupid.
I always get a laugh watching them butt heads and skip around like there fairys.

]]> By: Distilling pro http://www.fermentarium.com/homebrewing/8-clever-uses-for-bad-beer/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Distilling pro Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:17:21 +0000 http://www.fermentarium.com/?p=538#comment-26 Fusel Alcohols give you a hangover. Methyl Alcohol (wood spirits) make you go blind (or die). Fusel Alcohols give you a hangover. Methyl Alcohol (wood spirits) make you go blind (or die).

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