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My comment inverting the "m" in mash to get a "w" as in wash was tongue in cheek. But seriously, this thread is about safety and my dumb dumb could have seriously hurt me and my grandparents who were in the kitchen at the time of the mishap. When the molasses suddenly foamed and ...

I should have said "wash" instead of "mash." Invert the m in mash and what do you get?

My dumb dumb no-no was to put undiluted molasses mash into my 1 L glass erlenmeyer chemistry lab still. The mash began to boil then all of a sudden became like expansive insulation foam and overwhelmed the 1 Liter container, blew out the stopper and sent a column of boiling hot sticky goo all over t...

Twisted Brick,
You're right. Grandma and Grandpa were way cool.

I'm new to this site but not to distilling. 50 or so years ago while still in high school biology and chemistry, I started experimenting with living organisms and chemical reactions. The production of carbon dioxide and alcohol from a single cell fungus fascinated me. The separation of alcohol from ...