Would you drink an ethyl alcohol following distillation? Why or Why not?!
Would you drink an ethyl alcohol following distillation? Why or Why not?
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Sure...it's a little funky, but other than that, it's ethanol...booze.
Depending on the still used, it may or may not have any flavor, but it's ethanol all the same.
When you think about it, all liquors are "ethyl alcohol following distillation." The question then becomes "how long after?" It's still booze.
If I knew it didn't have methanol in it, I'd smell it -
I gave it up. Methanol blinds you.
Ethyl alcohol is the only one you can drink - which I suspect you knew already. Why, you got some shine you want to sell? Good ol' Mountain Dew...White Lightning! Oops, 'scuse me - I gotta go see why my thump barrel ain't thumpin'...
I suppose you want to convert industrial ethanol into drinkable alcohol. Industrial is usually made undrinkable (unpleasant to the palate) by addition of a trace pyridine or cyclohexane. Distillation does not separate these additives, since they form an azeotrope with ethanol.
No, because it could fuel cars, I wouldn't drink it.