I know this doesn't exactly fit the categories of BLTC, but I'll ask anyway.

http://plaza.ufl.edu/scott28/wine.html

Lets say I make the clear stuff from the BONUS: CHEAPER ALCOHOL! section, and after waiting for it to ferment I freeze it, will I result in pure alcohol in the end?

http://homedistiller.org/notstill.htm

Scroll down to the Freezing section.

Anyway, any guidance would be appreciated.

you're retarded

do you know absolutely nothing about chemistry?

Haha, I expected this response. What make my logic fallacious?

Haha, I expected this response. What make my logic fallacious?

Alcohol lowers the freezing point when it becomes concentrated, you dumbshit. So unless you have a freezer that can go like 200 below C you ain't gonna get pure alcohol. 20% maybe, at best.

Temperature (F/C) % Alc.
-12.2 8
-15.0 11
-17.8 14
-12.2 8
-20.6 17
-23.3 20
-26.1 24
-28.9 27
-31.7 30
-34.4 33

Bold = Crappy wine.

According to this, I'd only need a -15 Freezer for 11% alcohol.

The water would freeze and I'd get a layer of alcohol on the top.

Your retort?

Your retort?

You think 11% alcohol, 80% water, 1% yeast, and 8% sucrose is pure alcohol?

You have a lot to learn

You think 11% alcohol, 80% water, 1% yeast, and 8% sucrose is pure alcohol?

You have a lot to learn

Water freezing point = 0

Alcohol (Ethanol) freezing point = -114

You freeze the water, ice goes to the bottom, pure alcohol at the top.

To freeze a liquid with 11% alcohol I need a -15 freezer.

I need another opinion. Anyone help?

Have you fucking read nothing?


All the water does not freeze out while leaving pure alcohol behind, moron. It does not work that way no matter how retarded you try to make it seem

If you freeze 11% alcohol, you will get a slightly higher concentration while also losing some because it just got trapped between frozen water molecules.

And you should probably look up the definition of "pure", because 15% alcohol diluted in water is not pure by any means other than that there are two both pure chemicals mixed together.

Alcohol damages your liver. Fuck you all.

Chemical Eudaemonia is correct, though he's being kind of nasty about it. :p You can only get so far by freezing.

Yeah, Chemical Eudaemonia knows what he's talking about. The remaining alcohol in solution causes freezing point depression of the water, which prevents it from crystallizing at the temperature it normally does and therefore needs lower and lower temperatures to freeze as the concentration of alcohol in solution increases.

Okay, thanks guys. :)

At least I'll have crappy wine.

Apparently he doesn't...gtfo and go learn something

Just make a small scale bucket distiller. So simple.

I'd rather steal than drink that nasty stuff.

Water freezing point = 0

Alcohol (Ethanol) freezing point = -114

You freeze the water, ice goes to the bottom, pure alcohol at the top.

To freeze a liquid with 11% alcohol I need a -15 freezer.

I need another opinion. Anyone help?
Oh man, I just understood where you're coming from. Yeah, this would work if a single freezing would freeze all the water out, but it does only a bit at a time. :(

why bother freezing, just distill regularly.

A handle of cheap vodka can't cost more than the supplies to make an equivalent amount of just as shitty homemade moonshine...