Distilling beer worth it?

[Nightforce]

Hello to all,

I have an opportunity to obtain 2 cases of at to out of date beer for $10. I'm wondering if it would be worth it to distill. It's Busch beer, which I don't drink so would be of no use to me as is. I have a quarter keg as a boiler and my gut feeling is that I'd have to run only a case at a time (also can recover the aluminum cans for $ to offset, gotta save the planet right ) because of the added room needed because of foaming. From a 4-5% wash not sure it would be worth it.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

[olddog]

Either drink it or give it to your guests, don't distill it, you will regret it if you do.

[kiwistiller]

I have stripped, carbon filtered, stripped again and then spirit run some free beer before. couldn't taste the hops in it after all that processing, but it was a lot of work. free is free though.

[big worm]

i think i would drink the beer it would be practice, but not sure what it would taste like because of the hopps.
if you do let us know

[kiwistiller]

without carbon filtering the hops taste is awful, and persistent. If I didn't have a carbon filter lying around from my earlier days I'd wouldn't have bothered.

[blanikdog]

I'd drink the beer. I ignore most of this 'out of date' crap. Just another way for manufacturers to make more money, IMHO. We aren't stoopid! We can taste if something is crook or not.

blanik

[MuleKicker]

2 cases of out of date beer? That guy obviously isnt going to drink it if he wants to sell it. I would tell him you'll do him a favor and take it off his hands. but if you have to buy it? im with these guys, it aint worth it.

[HookLine]

For $10 you can make a bunch of sugar wash that will give you at least as much booze as the beer would, and without the hassle of cleaning out the hops flavour.

[xx7777xx]

When I first built my still I had some leftover beer in the keg that I decided to use as a test run. Let me tell you, that was not a good idea! It really stinks, and even the spirits coming out at 77C of my VM reflux tasted pretty nasty.

As already stated, spend your $10 on a big bag of sugar.

[Nightforce]

Thanks everyone for the replies, I'll not attempt it. Being a novice, all that trouble would be better spent on running sugar washes and similar easy stuff before I attempt that feat.

[Dnderhead]

it will run ok just gunks up the still and hard to git rid of oils from hops? if you do run it degas first.