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So after doing some really good mango and papaya brandy, I decided to do passionfruit, which I bought frozen at the grocery store. I did six pounds of fruit to one gallon of water and two pounds of sugar and two ounces of yeast. I started distilling after five days and it came out beautiful until the very end. As my thermometer ran to 195 degrees, the liquid starting coming out blue! It actually looked really nice and the taste is good, but I'm concerned since I am still new at this. What could this possibly mean and is it safe to drink?

Copper salts? Nasty stuff. Did you rinse your still, packing and condenser between runs?

What kind of yeast?

Yup, did all that, ran water through the condenser and I used distiller's yeast. I went to a distilling website and there was an interesting topic there. Apparently, if you use too much yeast nutrient, which I did, it can react with the copper making the product blue. It's not harmful and it actually looks nice, but by adding some citiric acid, it should clear it up. I did so and it worked beautifully, so problem solved. Thanks for the help though guys! By the way, I added citric acid to some papaya brandy I had done over the week end which was cloudy. It cleared it right up without affecting the taste!

Ummm...??? Yes, it is harmful and should not be consumed...!!! Throw it away...!!!

rad, why throw it away? Do you know something about this. Please let me know because I just added the first run to the rest of my original mash so I could run it again. I heard the nutrient makes it blue because of ammonia, but adding the citric acid neutralizes the ammonia, clears up the color and taste, which it seems to have done.

bourbonbob1 wrote:So after doing some really good mango and papaya brandy, I decided to do passionfruit, which I bought frozen at the grocery store. I did six pounds of fruit to one gallon of water and two pounds of sugar and two ounces of yeast. I started distilling after five days and it came out beautiful until the very end. As my thermometer ran to 195 degrees, the liquid starting coming out blue! It actually looked really nice and the taste is good, but I'm concerned since I am still new at this. What could this possibly mean and is it safe to drink?

Suprised noone has said this but thats probably just copper corrosion in your condensor, you need to do a cleaning run or two. Sometimes i'll get a little of my heads coming out a light blue but it will clear up, if your whole condensate was blue id do some heavy cleaning.
To the best of my knowledge, dont' drink it, BUT you can redistill it. Your choice, somoneone correct me if i'm wrong.

Thanks to all. I tossed it though Zeig, I've heard others say what you said about redistilling it, but I did some heavy cleaning as you said and am running a batch right now as I write this and it's coming out tasty and clean. Thanks for all the feed back everyone!