Comments on: Guinness Beersicle

By: counterzoom

counterzoom — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:49:56 +0000

http://kwc.org/mythbusters/2006/04/episode_50_bullets_fired_up_vo.html

Better yet, just Prestige vodka by the gallon, and don’t look at the label

By: bob

bob — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 06:26:39 +0000

sure it will work. you just have to take off the heat before the water starts to evaporate en masse.

as long as there’s still a decent quantity of ethanol in the pot, the liquid in the pot will stay at 78

By: userK

userK — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 01:13:39 +0000

The process you described wouldn’t work, nate. The water would evaporate as well and as soon as the vapor hits the chilled wok, it too would condense and run down and drip into the cup. This sort of thing distills water, not alcohol.

By: nate

nate — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 19:32:10 +0000

YOU CAN MAKE SOME GOOD STUFF IN ABOUT 10 DAYS EASY
POUR 1 QT BOTTLE OF CORN SYRUP IN A GALLON WATER/MILK JUG FILL 7/8 FULL OF WARM WATER
START A PACK OF DRY YEAST IN A CUP OF WATER WITH 2 TSP OF SUGAR -WHEN THE YEAST GETS STARTED BUBBLING AND GROWING POUR IT IN THE MILK JUG CAP THE JUG AND USING A NAIL POKE A FEW HOLES IN THE LID STORE FOR 7DAYS IN A WARM AREA 75-90 DEGREES THEN PUT THIS IN THE ABOVE WOK METHOD AND DONT SMOKE AFTER DRINKING THIS

By: nate

nate — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 19:15:17 +0000

filtering vodka will improve the taste but cannot increase the alcohol it just takes out foreshots (fussel oils) to make any cheap wine vodka or anything to high powered shit try this
1- put a short wide glass in the center of a deep pot
2- pour the cheap stuff around the center glass

3- fill a wok with ice and place it on top of your pot for a tight fit

4- heat the mixture on low heat for 20 miniutes

remove the wok and enjoy the glass of pure stuff
this method does not add anything just takes out the water and reduces the whole bottle to 1 glass

By: james

james — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 09:10:02 +0000

mooga, conservation of matter tells us that if the alcohol content of the vodka in question were to increase through active carbon filtering, then it must come from an external source. that is, unless, you were making a statement describing the relative increase in alcohol with respect to the hypothetical increase of total ethanol/filtered substance as the volume displacement of the filtered impurities are accounted. This increase would be infinitesimal…making you an idiot. on a side note, if alcohol (ethanol) is said to have a freezing point of -114.1 C

By: Mooga

Mooga — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:53:08 +0000

I’ve heard that it increasses the alchohol content, not decrease. And while I don’t drink and don’t know anyone who has done it, I have heard that it was an easy way to make cheap stuff into good expencive stuff.

By: shadymilkman

shadymilkman — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 04:25:55 +0000

The filter will definitely NOT take out any alcohol. As stated previously, the filters are carbon. Note that one standard brita filter can only do about 3 to 5 gallons of vodka before its time to change.

I’ve been doing this for a couple of years while in college. Buy a half-gallon of cheap liquor for $12. Filter it 5 times and you’ve got smooth vodka. It’s great. If you’re feeling innovative you can use some PVC pipe and connect five filters together in series and get all the filtration done in one shot, just don’t forget to run water through the filters beforehand.

By: randpiers

randpiers — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:50:15 +0000

activated carbon/brita…

works! definately… the less fusel oils in my alcohol the better… less fusel oils, less hangover.

the only alcohol loss will be via evaporation.

By: duffman3030

duffman3030 — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:16:13 +0000

if im not mistaken, brita filters are activated carbon. if you want 200 proof you take 190 proof (the highest possible from distillation, give or take a bit) and run it thru activated carbon. that gets rid of the last bit of water. so, if anything the proof would go up not down, if brita filterss are infact activated carbon. itis also dependent on how saturated the carbon is. it can only absorb so much water.

By: aerospike

aerospike — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 00:00:03 +0000

I distill quite a large amount of alcohol, (check out http://homedistiller.org/ to see how its done) A pretty cheap and easy valved refulx still can be made for less than $60 and make a whollatta hooch. Anyway, my point is that in distillers lingo, charcoal filtering is called “carbon polishing” a process that removes most any of the fusal oils, benzines, esters etc. (read: flavors – good or bad)
I presume that eventually, if you carbon polish vodka enough, that you will end up with only ethanol and water.
There is a great ebook -
http://www.home-distillation.com/activated_book1.pdf
(pdf, sheeshe I know…) that goes into details about carbon… loads of information on polishing in general here:
http://homedistiller.org/polish.htm

By: Blind tree frog

Blind tree frog — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:20:57 +0000

Bleh, my retraction didn’t post. I didn’t realise that the link i was posting was the original link. Ignore me.

By: hoovertronic

hoovertronic — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 05:36:46 +0000

my dad makes his own wine. I will test this by using the alcohol measuring device he uses. being a vodka drinker, i am curious as to see how the cheap and good stuff is after filtering.

By: Blind tree frog

Blind tree frog — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 02:14:51 +0000

http://www.ohmygoditburns.com/wordpress/index.php?cat=3

For those interested in this.

To get the proof you could just do it the old fashion way. Set it on fire and compare what’s left with what you had originally. This is how it was done back in the day I’m told.

By: Blind tree frog

Blind tree frog — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 02:13:51 +0000

http://www.ohmygoditburns.com/wordpress/index.php?cat=3

For those interested in this.

To get the proof you could just do it the old fashion way. Set it on fire and compare what’s left with what you had originally. This is how it was done back in the day I’m told.