As someone from North Carolina, this is the first we are hearing of this “ban”. You sure it applies to us?
Is this like the moonshine ban?
I started drinking at age 16 on pure 96% moonshine. Got absolutely blackout legless hammered every time. I drank it because it was the easiest to get hold of and way cheaper than any other alcohol. Almost died the rock star death of choking in my own puke a couple of times. When I got to 18 and was allowed to buy it I switched to mostly beer and wine. Still got blackouts every now and then since, up through my 20s, but not anywhere near to the levels I was at in the beginning. I think that was both attributed to knowing my limits and maturing a tiny bit. Now in my 40s I hardly ever drink a beer and even one gives me quite a buzz.
Not sure if I would have had the same experience if moonshine was legal.
I think you might have been an alcoholic
I didn’t say I drank every day.
I hope that’s a joke.
You were exhibiting serious substance abuse issues. Daily abuse is not a requirement to suffer from alcoholism
You’re lucky to be here.
Guess we want more people blinded, for some reason
That’s only when the government poisons alcohol during things like prohibition to purposely blind people. It doesn’t happen from regular fermentation or distillation you’d do to make drinking alcohol
https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/deborah-blum-how-the-government-poisoned-people-du
I have heard of that, they still poison ethanol nowadays for that purpose I hear. Meanwhile in prohibition they had medical alcohol and people bribed officials to get huge amounts of real liquor.
You get some methanol in making liquor. It depends mostly on things like fruit peels, or gin because of the juniper. That is why you dump everything produced from 160 degrees until 180, as methanol has a lower boiling point.
The antidote to methanol is alcohol though. But you have 20 minutes before permanent damage results. And death is one of those damages.
The blindness is because it makes formic acid in your blood, the same stuff red ants and stinging nettles use.
Alcohol has preferential binding on the receptors, so it pushes off the methanol.
Propaganda
If you don’t start from corn there’s not very much methanol in wheat I have read.
It’s legal to produce the alcohol for personal consumption via fermentation. How dare you remove some of the water from it.
Is this to give us a way to get drunk and forget that they stripped women of their bodily autonomy and prevented presidents from being held accountable for their crimes?
to offset , the people using weed reducing the need to drink alcohol.
Wait, I can’t make liquor? They sell stovetop stills, and someone who isn’t me has been making some for the past year. I think it’s not illegal in my state, so there is no nexus to interstate commerce so the feds should have no jurisdiction but we don’t follow the constitution so idk.
Could just be an example of an unenforceable law. The feds aren’t gonna go around knocking down doors to check for distilleries. Immigrants on the other hand…
Locals can rat you out to the feds to make the case though, unless forbidden by state law in doing so. Just as they do with so called civil asset forfeiture, (states have their own versions, federal version is lucrative for them, feds only take a small cut, locals keep 90 percent or something.
Home distilling would be awesome without the fear of uncle sam breaking through your door demanding taxes
Huh. I thought that was actually allowed under certain amounts or something.
My mom and I were once offered genuine moonshine in South Carolina. The only reasons we didn’t take it were that we don’t drink alcohol and were flying home soon after, and didn’t know the rules for that. It was in a mason jar. I think it would have been a neat keepsake of the trip.
Oh, I didn’t even realize that I broke a federal crime. Huh.
Big dumb dumb juice make big boom
