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48 Hour turbo and sugar distillation comes out blue, smells like death, (not alcohol, ether someone thought.) (doineedaurltopost.fuckme)
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It was just a bucket with water and sugar, both white and brown, 4 and 4 pounds of each in about 4 gallons of water, and the stovetop distiller came out blue, it even seemed to be more blue the next day. I retched up the bit I drank before I realized how bad it was.

Anyone experience this before? Is there a reason this 48 hour turbo yeast, sugar, and water, in a bucket, could come out blue?

Thanks for any help, brewing supply has no answers, the internet search engines are giving me nothing on point.

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[–] 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What colour is the bucket? Has it changed at all since the begining?

Does the distillation setup include any copper component?

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    The bucket is white, the wort was dark, like blackish, which it normally is like a golden colour. There is a copper coil from the top of the pot through a little water container on top where a silicone tube hooks onto it to carry to mason jars in my case.

    But I used the still just a few days prior on a 24 hour turbo just a few days prior, and it wasn't then or ever before blue, and the smell of this stuff is just off, it's volatile, I don't think it's ethanol. It can't be ether I don't think that requires acid being added and other specific thins.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Theres your problem, the wash was shit.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 11 hours ago

    It was just 8 pounds of sugar in water with that disgusting turbo yeast, (I usually filter the end product through charcoal to lessen the funk taste of the turbo,) and 4 gallons of water. Same as dozens of times before, but instead of ethanol it seemed to have produced a volatile death smelling substance. The blue could be from the copper but it was just used 5 days prior with no blue, and no death smelling volatiles, just funky tasting moonshine, or whatever you want to call it.

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