Re: Making ethanol

Posted by Doug in OR on January 28, 2005 at 16:22:03 from (159.121.94.198):

In Reply to: Re: Making ethanol posted by Haas on January 27, 2005 at 08:39:35:

Heyyyyy.... we made it when I was in high school! LOL! Times were different back then. In a nutshell, here's what you do:

Get some molasses and cut it a little with water - maybe 1 part water to 3 parts molassss. Add some yeast - I don't recall how much - and let it sit at room temperature for about a week. Do not let it sit in a sealed container. After your week is up, all you need to do is distill the ethanol from the other gunk. Simply heat the mix to something slightly above the boiling point of ethanol - about 172F, as I recall. Run the steam through a condensor and the droplettes should be pretty strong stuff. Ours burned nearly clear when we made it in high school. Distill it VERY carefully, paying attention to the temperature. We tried to hurry our batch. It made for some stuff with a NASTY taste. We didn't try to drink it or anything, honest!

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