100% Metho

[Bob Willson]

Bob

Out of curiosity are you saying that SA wine is lacking in quality?? :confused:

or have you only brought the cheep and nasty stuff to try!!

No Ian. Quite the opposite. And depending on exactly what you mean by cheap (or cheep) I may have done so, but I still like SA wines.

[Marc]

I think your methods are far too complicated. In Mt Isa the locals just buy Methol at Bunnings, poor it in an empty Coke bottel and voilá "white Coke".
They sem to be immune to the methanol part of the "drink"

[PeterJohn]

I haven't tried this, but a suggestion based on experience by a colleague (?) with removing excess water from Vodka is to put the tainted Meths in the freezer. The theory is that the water will freeze while the alcohol will not and can then be poured off.

I would be interested to know the results if anyone tries this.

Regards
Pete

[simon c]

Pete, freezing won't work at that concentration, there is a complex solubility relationship between water and ethanol at about the 96% concentration that makes it very hard to remove water above that level.

I remember building a distiallation column in 1st year Chem Eng practicals to get the concentration that high.

However, what you suggest is I believe how vodka was originally made - but maybe that is an urban myth

[Kris.Parker1]

You might want the fire brigade handy if you inend to distill it with an open flame as the vapours can become quite flammable.