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.

    • bedwyr@piefed.caOPEnglish
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      16 hours ago

      I am heating over an open fire, in a stainless pot, copper coil from top in a stainless container on top you fill with water to cool it, then a silicon tube to your collector, I use mason jars.

      So nothing was different from the other dozens of times I’ve done this. Temperature was cold at night, I haven’t fired up my woodstove yet, but I don’t think that would matter.

  • Uranium 🟩@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

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

    Does the distillation setup include any copper component?

    • bedwyr@piefed.caOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      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.

        • bedwyr@piefed.caOPEnglish
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          16 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.

    • bedwyr@piefed.caOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Oh huh thanks, yeah placeholder, both times I’ve posted on lemmy it made me use a url, idk what is going on, but it errors until I put something in there.