Haw i can made ethanol at home from corn?!
Haw i can made ethanol at home from corn?
Answers:
You can make up to 10,000 gallons per year of tax-free ethanol for *fuel* provided you get a federal fuel-ethanol producer's permit. It's free and easy to get:
The rules http://www.ttb.gov/spirits/19_910.htm...
The form http://www.ttb.gov/forms/f511074.pdf...
The info http://running_on_alcohol.trip...
If you want to make beverage alcohol, you're out of luck. It's not legal to do without a federal permit, and you can't get one for your home.
If you are talking about distilling ethanol from corn, you cannot legally do so in most jurisductions. Ethanol distilled from corn at home is called moonshine, and making moonshine is frowned upon in just about every state.
Now, if you want to make beer, just add brewer's yeast to a corn mash and let it ferment. You will have a horried tasting beverage, but home brewing is legal most everywhere.
If you live in the US, as long as you are making corn wine and not distilling the product to make it more concentrated than its natural state after fermentation, you may be fine. I know you can legally make wine and beer but as soon as you begin distillation is when things start turning illegal.
That and there probably is some limit to how much beer or wine you can legally make per year for drinking purposes.
You can make up to 100 gallons of homemade beer and wine a year for your own personal use. You would need to go through a process called mashing (It turns the starch in the corn into fermentable sugars) From there all you need to do is add some yeast and wait a few days. I sudjest that you head down to your local homebrewing store or buy a book about homebrewing and start there.