Big Phil
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Home distillationWhy is home distillation illegal?
Home brewing is easy as pie, and its seems logical to progress to distillation.
So why is it illegal?
I have heard horror stories of people going blind from drinking methanol instead of ethanol. How true is this?
If ethanol vapours at 65 degree celcius with todays home technology a reliable and accurate still is relativley easy to create.
Any views anyone?
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fishy1
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Tax purposes I reckon. It would be easy to distill some for yourselve, then sell it.
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fish
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its illegal purely due to revenue loss worries! speak to any pole they doit all the time there!
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the farrier
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Where's Wildman,i bet he has got a still up in them woods somewhere!!!
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Magus
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Re: Home distillation | Big Phil wrote: | Why is home distillation illegal?
Home brewing is easy as pie, and its seems logical to progress to distillation.
So why is it illegal?
I have heard horror stories of people going blind from drinking methanol instead of ethanol. How true is this?
If ethanol vapours at 65 degree celcius with todays home technology a reliable and accurate still is relativley easy to create.
Any views anyone? |
Actually Laws changed...
Its now legal to distill your own as long as its for personal use only.
Can even get the distillers on ebay. But would sooner make a reflux system myself.
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dugaboy
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it has always been legal in scotland to still 1 gal per adult male per year without paying tax .
3 books from my collection brewed in america stanley baron 1962 no isbn / the alaskan bootleggers bible by leon w kania isbn 0-9674524-0-6
alcohol distillers handbook isbn 0-87947-303-7 1980 cheers
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fish
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and heres all the kit and knowhow!
http://www.amazingstill.com/parts.html
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Morlan75
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Totally into having ago at this mmm Gin!!! and the only good thing now about the law is I don't have to share it lol...coz it's not allowed
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fish
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ha ha ha ! swapsies arent mentioned in the law.......
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Morlan75
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Been looking through this site again you got the recipe for the drain cleaner Fish? I feel an experiment coming on...
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