I actually don't know about calculating the abv, I just check its finished abv and then distill it putting down a +, meaning I know it's higher than after secondary.

I usually put the liquor in plastic bottles, the more flexible the better so it doesn't crack (had a bad experience once), then let them freeze upside down.

Leave them overnight, maybe for 2 so they really freeze solid, then leave them upright until they start to thaw. I prefer to keep them say in a fridge because the slower they defrost slowly and steadily.

This is because the whole conceot is that alcohol has a much lower freezing point that water, thus you can freeze the water out of solution and be left with stronger alcohol. You can do this at room temperature, but I would strongly advise against trying to accelerate the defrosting by heating it OR putting it somewhere warmer that room temp. This is because you need to remember that the alcohol is still trapped in the ice and will generally separate from the water more efficiently the more time you let it take to detach from the frozen water.

Additionally, things like sugar and other solids tend to get caught in the ice, so it also can thin and clarify you hooch at the expense of sometimes flattening the flavour profile, but hey, sometimes that's what you want and it also brings me to

A Huge Disclaimer :

You know what stays with the alcohol during this process? The harsher compounds that contribute to hangovers. Trust me when I say this is realy and will hurt you, so either ise this stuff for mixed drinks or sparingly!

Further, it is not a perfect process and will never get you as good a product as traditional distillation.

Bonus Advice from a Borderline Alcoholic :

Wanna minimize hangovers? Chocolate milk. Not a joke. Real chocolate in full fat milk OR just a chocolate bar with a decent amount of cocoa. I don't know why, but eating chocolate or drinking chocolate milk this way before drinking makes me wake up with a full feeling belly, but no headache! Tried this and have since been able to drink as much as I want and just have a rock in my belly the next day.

NOT THAT EXCESSIVE DRINKING IS MEDICALLY ADVISABLE, DRINK RESPONSIBLY.

Sort of. In my experience, these things can go from karo syrup to simple syrup, but usually once it gets to a degree I'd genuinely refer to as viscous it doesn't tend to become water-like again. Maybe others have had more luck.

I made several batches of cherry mead last year and over sweetened them to a near comical level. It sat for months before becoming what I'd consider drinkable, at which point I still freezer distilled it and that generally fixed things.

Well, typically yes. I don't often make beer, usually wines, but the yeast you use impacts the taste.

Further to that end, kham yeast not only doesn't produce alcohol, it produces off flavours and generally impalatable tastes.

It doesn't actually even ferment stuff, and is more of a risky as the rafts it creates dry out, oxidize, and provide a platform for mold growth.

TL,DR : Kham yeast isn't the kind of yeast you want for fermentation. It doesn't taste good or produce alcohol.

Edit : I just wanna add that the reason kham yeast is fine in small amounts in pickles but not alcohol is that pickles are usually not penetrated by the yeast, so the flavour can be overlooked barring the brine. I used to own a small hotsauce and canning business and would toss milder hotsauces due to its aftertaste should I see it (depends on the method you use to make it, mashes can be scraped off for example), but booze relies on taste, so those little contaminations end up impacting the end result in larger ways later on.

I had an infected epidural and then it was uncovered that I have a negative reaction to morphine similar to anaphylaxis.

I was recovering from a Nuss procedure and the epidural shifted and then went unchecked despite me complaining of pain. It was leaking anesthetic and body fluids for who knows how long and the area became inflamed, prohibitting another epidural, so the doctors administered more and more pain killers, but none of them could really dampen the pain so they opted for morphine.

I don't know the science behind it, but it felt like it flished all the medicine from my system and began electrocuting me from the inside. I was only about 13 and I screamed so loud for so long they had to move me to an empty wing of the hospital. I remember every second of it, and I just can't convey the physical pain. I hope no one ever has to feel that.

The most bizarre part was that during one of these little "come downs" I'd have were the pain would ease for a bit, I could literally see my pulse like something iut of a cheap action movie. My vision would bug out and blur and I'd get these pulsating head rushes.

I mean... if any animal is wearing a suit, it'd be a penguin, right??

Thanks for the info!

Ah, higher education just makes you more likely to be progressive, not less likely to be conservative.

How in the name of jesus's balls do you have a floating spanish flag in your pfp?

If your have the technical skill to do so, I will straight up finance the development of the project.

There are so many times where the only reason I've stayed is because there are new video games coming out.

Most common though, arguably less relatable, is that I need to finish writing my book first.

Either Minnesota or northern Denmark.

You've just created the issue with games like this. OpenTTD is amazing for its simlistic depth, whereas when you try to add diversity to issues like this, you either wind up with a new game that is very complicated to model, or a new grf that quickly discovers the limitations of said depth.

If ever there was a way to preserve the simple nature of AXIS OpenTTD while adding more nuance to the nature of population mechanics, I'd flip in a heartbeat.

My 30th is this Friday. Feels like I'm gonna be screaming during that, too.

Well, it would seem you definitely do weigh.

I found out that my bio dad was Arab through one of these tests. I even contacted customer support and redid the test with the same results.

I remember walking into the kitchen and asking my mom "Was my dad Arab??" (I'd never met him) and she was kust like "Yeah? I thought you knew." Like bro, I've never even seen a picture of this man, how would I know????

It also came as quite a shock to my evangelical extended family to find out that, not only was the man brown, but came from a family of practicing muslims. Some of them don't talk to me anymore...

Well give em a minute, jeez.

I fucking called this several weeks ago and people called me an idiot.

Seriously, I can't even begin to tell you how fucking bad for the US it'll be with all three collectively working to counter their dumb fucking tarrifs.

Pepe the Frog

No, but you can eat it. It really just emparts a really pastey kinda astringent flavour. If I see it on an alcoholic ferment then it's immediately tossed, but pickles, you can usually scrape it off then let the mash sit with some extra salt for a day and it's fine.

I have seen no less than four loss references in less than a minute. I am logging off for the day.

Ah. You've spawned in an ammo world. Luckily, you'll have all the ammo you'll ever need, but in this world there will be no gins to shoot them with.

Those are in the gun world.

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I just finished building a bridge. Know what I'm doing now? Building another bridge.

Du marais, cher.

Du marais, cher.