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Some folks need to learn how to sip.
1 posted on 12/16/2011 11:50:47 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

“Apu - I told you not to use wood chips in the still”


2 posted on 12/16/2011 11:52:11 AM PST by Mr. K (Physically unable to profreed <--- oops, see?)
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To: Libloather

Union Carbide’s fault!


3 posted on 12/16/2011 11:54:57 AM PST by edpc (Wilby 2012)
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To: Libloather

Most likely antifreeze


4 posted on 12/16/2011 11:57:27 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Libloather

Check out the pic at the Wiki entry...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol


5 posted on 12/16/2011 11:59:24 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Libloather

Dreadful. RIP.


6 posted on 12/16/2011 12:03:15 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (If Newt Gingrich is a Reliable Conservative, Joe Biden is a member of MENSA)
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To: Libloather

If your skin is very sensitive don’t go out in the full moon. Severe moonburns can be fatal.


7 posted on 12/16/2011 12:04:16 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Libloather

Mr. Roosevelt
Told us just how he felt
The day the Whiskey Law went through
“If your whiskey is red,
it’ll swell up your head.
Better stick with that
Good ol’ mountain dew.”


10 posted on 12/16/2011 12:09:09 PM PST by old3030 (I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look.)
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To: Libloather

Another lost domestic art. Sad, aint it?

My great great grandpappy Jedidiah Jackson Navycando should have written a Moonshine for Dummies book.


12 posted on 12/16/2011 12:10:28 PM PST by NavyCanDo
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To: Libloather

http://homedistiller.org/methanol.htm:


Will home-distilled alcohol make me go blind ? Not if you’re carefull. This pervasive question is due to moonshine lore, which abounds with myths of blindness, but few actual documented cases. The concern is due to the presence of methanol (wood alcohol), an optic nerve poison, which can be present in small amounts when fermenting grains or fruits high in pectin. This methanol comes off first from the still, so it is easily segregated and discarded. A simple rule of thumb for this is to throw away the first 50 mL (reflux still) you collect (per 20 L mash used), or 100-200 mL from a pot still.


15 posted on 12/16/2011 12:23:20 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Libloather
And watch out for them Revenue boys!


16 posted on 12/16/2011 12:23:44 PM PST by PGR88 (Sic transit gloria mundi)
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To: Libloather

It pays to know what you’re doing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzae_SqbmDE


21 posted on 12/16/2011 1:04:43 PM PST by Gator113 (~Just livin' life, my way~.. Newt/Palin-West-2012."got a lot swirling around in my head.")
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To: Libloather
Some folks need to learn how to sip.

My Tennessee brother-in-law visited and gave me a quart of moonshine. I'm afraid of drinking it. If I sip it, how do I tell if it's not dangerous? I just stare at the jar, thinking it's nice to be able to use my eyes.

22 posted on 12/16/2011 1:05:58 PM PST by roadcat
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Correction: “Mystery chemical drunk by idiots kills at least 133 in India...”

I’d be willing to bet some money that more people die every year choking on hot dogs, than drinking moonshine.


23 posted on 12/16/2011 1:14:19 PM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: Libloather

My grandparents told me it killed a whole lot more people than that over here during Prohibition. Too many rank amateurs in the moonshine business who had no idea what they were doing.


26 posted on 12/16/2011 2:04:51 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Libloather

I once had an interesting conversation with a moonshiner (who looked the part). I asked him what he did about fusel oil, which set him off on a lecture worthy of one of my PhD chemistry professors on all the steps he used to prevent fusel oil contamination. I decided that he knew what he was doing. His moonshine was pretty good.


31 posted on 12/16/2011 4:36:29 PM PST by TChad
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To: Libloather

What... TLC wasn’t a show there were they??


32 posted on 12/16/2011 5:30:29 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Libloather

Sounds like methanol. That stuff killed one of my uncles.


34 posted on 12/16/2011 9:03:10 PM PST by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
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