using turbo yeast to make hard lemonade

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 6:57 pm

i'm trying to make some hard lemonade with very low methanol content for minimal hangovers. will using turbo yeast to ferment sugarwater give me a lower % of methanol than other recipes, due to the fact that i'm fermenting pure sugar?

Post by **Uncle Jesse** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:37 pm

methanol comes from fermenting wood, or in small amounts in any grain or sugar wash. just toss the first 100ml or so and you're plenty safe. methanol comes over before ethanol, allowing it to be separated in this manner.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:16 pm

i'm not doing any distilling though.

Post by **Tater** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 6:29 pm

looks like a troller uncle

The Chemist · Post by **The Chemist** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:05 am

Sounds like you'd find more info at a homebrew site. Anyway, just keep things clean and don't worry about methanol. I homebrew and sometimes test my beer, and have never had a problem. (Commercial tequilas are the worst for methanol.)