Our local rum distillery was selling hand sanitizer they made from byproducts (I guess). I never tried to drink it.
I bought a bottle once. It came with a flame arrester cap.
I don't believe you.
Okay, the more I read, the less I know. The MH would be a problem if I soaked my hands in it. Not so much if it's a highly volatile hand rinse after coming out of the shopping mall. A small quantity dries in a matter of seconds. Besides, all my good brain cells were gone 20 or more years ago, I have only the survival ones and they keep chugging along like a diesel locomotive.
Is this necessity or just an opportunity to save a dollar ?.....because being cheap can sometimes be more costly! 😉
Good question Bob.
Because I don't have a lot of use for either anymore, I am interested in making use of those things I have 'on hand'. (insert laughter here)
I need the containers to store the moonshine from the corn mash I picked up in the fall.
You guys should stop asking so many questions.
Because I don't have a lot of use for either anymore, I am interested in making use of those things I have 'on hand'. (insert laughter here)
I need the containers to store the moonshine from the corn mash I picked up in the fall.
You guys should stop asking so many questions.
Did you check it out? (It may already be on this thread.)
The US FDA considers Grain alky less-toxic than Wood alky, and grain alky is what "all" our hand-sanitizer is based on.
Which does open the question of strict non-drinkers, including Hindus and Mormons and me. My teetotaling is practical not godly and I'll rub the poison on my hands, but I'm surprised Quaker children are not objecting.
Alternatives include Benzalkonium Chloride, Iscaguard VIR, and "oils with proven anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties". But:
"The Wall Street Journal notes that alcohol-free hand sanitizers don't have enough clinical studies to prove whether they are as effective or more effective than alcohol-based sanitizers."
Alcohol sales are particularly restricted when tax is collected on booze. The United States was *founded* on the drug trade: tobacco, molasses, and rum. We had no income tax because export tax on smokes/drinks to Europe covered the cost of government. For a while, internal use was untaxed (also nearly untaxable); the politics of that are interesting.
> they have so much drinkable alcohol available, only in lower concentrations (around 40%)
I can buy 90%. As taxed booze. As I understand it, *drinking* much over 40%-50% burns the throat so there is little incentive to bottle drinking alcohol much harder than 100 proof (50%). Though 151 Rum is popular for show-off or in-a-hurry drinkers. Or for burning pancakes.
Jacking (freezing) is a slow process. Even here it would be difficult to make the magic 60% number in FDA guides. Maybe next week? (brrrr) It also concentrates incidental byproducts to the point that strong fresh applejack dims your eyes (wood alcohol) and tastes awful (fusels).
> they have so much drinkable alcohol available, only in lower concentrations (around 40%)
I can buy 90%. As taxed booze. As I understand it, *drinking* much over 40%-50% burns the throat so there is little incentive to bottle drinking alcohol much harder than 100 proof (50%). Though 151 Rum is popular for show-off or in-a-hurry drinkers. Or for burning pancakes.
Jacking (freezing) is a slow process. Even here it would be difficult to make the magic 60% number in FDA guides. Maybe next week? (brrrr) It also concentrates incidental byproducts to the point that strong fresh applejack dims your eyes (wood alcohol) and tastes awful (fusels).