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| Big Phil |
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 |
Tax purposes I reckon. It would be easy to distill some for yourselve, then sell it. | ||
| fish |
its illegal purely due to revenue loss worries! speak to any pole they doit all the time there! | ||
| the farrier |
Where's Wildman,i bet he has got a still up in them woods somewhere!!!  
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| Magus |
Re: Home distillation
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 |
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 |
and heres all the kit and knowhow!
http://www.amazingstill.com/parts.html |
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| Morlan75 |
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 |
ha ha ha ! swapsies arent mentioned in the law....... | ||
| Morlan75 |
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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