If you want to know how to make safe moonshine, we have two previous articles that you should read first: –Can moonshine make you blind? – Truth vs. Myth –Will I blow my house up distilling? – Truth vs. Myth The rest of this article will cover a few last distillation safety issues that you […]
The biggest danger of distilling (in my opinion) is the fire danger. Believe it or not, ethanol vapors aren’t flammable, they are explosive, highly explosive! This can pose a very big problem for the negligent distiller who may be vaporizing several gallons of ethanol over the course of a run. Here is a short video […]
Moonshine Blindness One of the most common questions that we get from folks new to distilling is, “Is it true that moonshine can make you go blind?” No, moonshine does not make you go blind, but high doses of methanol certainly can. Unless you really screw up a batch, you should not end up with concentrations […]
There are many who wonder if it is illegal to make moonshine. Unfortunately, the rules regarding the legality of distilling moonshine vary from state to state, so we can’t really do this for every state… but since we are located in Colorado, here is a summary of the Colorado distilling laws regarding home distillation of […]
