How much supplies would it take to distill one gallon of alcohol?!
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Answers: Around 10 gallons of mash for 1 gallon of fairly pure ethanol alcohol.
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I tried three times to get that information, but each time I tried to measure everything and record it , I found that I was too drunk to write anything down.---But I do remember it was a whole bunch of crap.
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Depends on the supplies. Are you using sugar, grains, fruit?
Whatever it is, you have to first start with wine/beer making principles. If you have a recipe for any of them, it should give you an idea of how much alcohol you should get from the recipe.
This also depends on what you mean by a gallon of alcohol...do you mean pure, 100% anhydrous ethanol, or 40%, drinking strength alcohol (vodka, whiskey, etc).
Assuming you're aiming for one gallon of 40% abv (alcohol by volume) whiskey, herés how you'd figure it out.
1 gallon of 40% alcohol is 0.4 gallons of pure ethanol. The wash or "distiller's beer" you need to brew will be about 5% alcohol after the brewing is done. You need a total of about 10 gallons of 5% wash which contains a total of 0.5 gallons of pure ethanol. If you distill that at about 90% efficiency, you get 0.45 gallons...but then you have to discard some due to impurities...that would leave you somewhere around 0.4 gallons (plus or minus) of pure ethanol...but you'd actually have more like 0.7 gallons of less-than-100% ethanol. Then you top it up with water, and you have your gallon of 40% booze.
If you make a wine (for making brandy) and it's final alcohol content is 10% (twice that of our previously cited beer) then you'd only need half as much total volume to get your gallon.
So then...start looking up beer and wine recipes and figure out how you'd make 10 gallons of 5% beer or 5 gallons of 10% wine...THEN, distill it, and there you'll have your gallon of booze.
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