Dear Brethren,
I've just wanted this business insider documentary on Mezcal. Now, I know they are distilling in a traditional setting with very little to no mechanisation but.... Just watch it, the plastic, rubber and other badness involved makes me very hesitant to drink it again after seeing this!
I have many fine commercial spirits that don't conform to HD rules in their production. I'm not about to pour any down the drain.
At home, I alone drink the majority of what I produce. If there is anything harmful in my equipment/production that could impact my health, then over time, I'll be dosing myself.
On the other hand, I only consume tiny fractions of other producers product. So I spend more time worrying about my own house and not so much what is in the bottle I just purchased.
It was an interesting "watch".
interesting thing i saw was......
Mezcal must have .3gm per 100ml Methanol as well as other standards.......
long term exposure to methanol can effect the optic nerve,
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5625597/
I can certainly foresee that I may one day (may have even done so in the past) "drinking 1000ml of spirits in a 12h window"...
I wouldn't ever recommend folks adding methanol to anything.
Cheers,
jonny————
i make stuff i break stuff
water into whiskey into water
just getting started in home distilling - been drinking for decades
16g copper pot still, 10l alembic, and a column or two
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Indeed, the methanol bit was interesting. The distillation process and how they made cuts was different from what I'm used to, unless there was a language barrier and different terms!
Depending on what was fermented, some booze has practically none.
I suspect mezcal, might have more than most, since it's made from fermenting fibrous cactus.
Having said that I've drank more than my share of mezcal.
It's a good thing that mezcal has enough poisonous ethanol to be an antidote for methanol.
right right, my favorite cure for methanol ingestion!
A word of warning.
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Humans metabolize ethanol faster than methanol.
Long story short, if you have ingested methanol. Keep drinking ethanol for an extend time, so the antidote is present, until the methanol has slowly been excreted from your body.
Post time 2022-10-30 20:07:08
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