Make your own alcohol for tinctures

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For informational purposes only..

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duly noted...

[saskafarian]

here is an interesting site for info on home distillation:

http://www.homedistiller.org/

[Schip]

the thing to remember is that you HAVE to toss the first 50 mL that comes out, that is where the methanol and other nastys are... after that you should get a good clean run of mostly pure ethanol. Turbo yeast and corn sugar is the way to go.