Quote from: anetode on February 23, 2015, 09:05:30 PM
Pick five.

Quote from: Armaegis
And alcohol or other imbibement of choice will solve the rest.

At home during recreational listening that is a really good strategy and works well for me.
But during work hours that strategy might be frowned upon.

I thought Turpentine is used of painting?

I thought Turpentine is used of painting?

He's not referring to actual terpentine.

Real terpentine (or terebinth) was and is the distilled oil from the resin of pinus palutris, the long-leaf pine (although I've seen it produced from pinus pinaster as well). It has a number of uses, including dilute topical application for musculo-skeletal pain. Its use to strip paint is why a cheap but very strong liquor would be named after it. Well, that and the fact that it's poisonous when taken orally.

Its use to strip paint is why a cheap but very strong liquor would be named after it. Well, that and the fact that it's poisonous when taken orally.

So the lesson here is that if you don't take it orally, you'll get all of the high but none of the poison...

After the first distillation you are bound to end up with a ton of toxic and yucky tasting crap along with the alcohol (not dissimilar from embalming fluids, etc., hell I wouldn't be surprised if there are trace amounts of turpentine as well). The sane and responsible thing to do is to get rid of these through fractional distillation and other filtering, then distill again and repeat the process, but when talking about cost-conscious moonshine purveyors, they might just sell the first product they get which even somewhat resembles booze.