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Wood alcohol

Submitted by Philip Brewer on September 26, 2007 - 07:29.

Yeast won't make methanol, so you're not going to accidentally end up with it following this process to make moonshine.

The old way to make methanol was through a process called "destructive distillation," in which you basically operate your still directly on woodchips (rather than the must), which is why it's called wood alcohol.

I don't think making wood alcohol was ever a mistake. Most of the methanol posionings must have resulted from someone finding industrial methanol and not understanding (or not caring) that it was poison.

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