Vapors

[BENTCAP]

Is it possible to get a buzz from vapors coming from the cooling coils, I have a copper pot still with cooling coil tub, I was running the pot too high and the coil couldn't keep up, there was hissing vapors coming out. I was sitting directly in front of it doing my run. Later that night I had a buzz like a I drank way too much, and I didn't drink anything during the run, it felt like I had a hangover.

[The Baker]

Is it possible to get a buzz from vapors coming from the cooling coils, I have a copper pot still with cooling coil tub, I was running the pot too high and the coil couldn't keep up, there was hissing vapors coming out. I was sitting directly in front of it doing my run. Later that night I had a buzz like a I drank way too much, and I didn't drink anything during the run, it felt like I had a hangover.

Probably more likely to get blown up.

Geoff

[jonnys_spirit]

Sure if you inhaled a bunch would be the same as drinking it. Be careful that vapor is extremely flammable and can be explosive if loose in an enclosed space mixed with air (oxygen). One spark and boom.

You should fix that issue right away when it happens.

Cheers,
-jb

[still_stirrin]

Is it possible to get a buzz from vapors coming from the cooling coils.

HELL YES.

If you’re not smart enough to know that inhaling alcohol vapors is dangerous (and deadly)....you better get out of this hobby right now!

Don’t become a statistic...fix the leak ASAP!
If you’re outrunning the product condenser...reduce the boiler heat.
ss

[NZChris]

Have a look at the Ardbeg Haar carafe.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food ... APOUR.html

[NZBoka701]

You can get drunk quicker from vapours than from drinking. Bit of a known trick at parties with the young ones is to put a small amount of vodka in a 2L drinking bottle and then pump it up like a bottle rocket. Let all the pressure out and it vapourises into a cloud, inhale it and you go from sober to drunk in about 2 minutes. Pretty dumb thing to do but when has that ever stopped them?

[OtisT]

And if that vapor leak was when the run first started, you were inhaling more than just ethanol. Acetone and ethal acetate too. That could account for your hangover more than being drunk from ethanol.

Otis

[Oldvine Zin]

Vapors!! Hell yes! At the winery we use a mobile bottling line when ever we bottle. It's a 40' trailer set up as a line, a couple of windows but pretty much a sealed box. Our wine is never more than 16 Abv (OK sometimes a little more) After a few hours on the line you are defiantly a little buzzed. The biggest reaction was from a volunteer worker that flew his plane to the winery to help with bottling only to realize that he was to wasted to fly home. And that was with low ABV spirits, Be safe and don't run when you know that you are having problems with your setup

OVZ