How to clean moonshine at home

Making moonshine at home has become a popular pastime. But how to clear the drink of fusel impurities, to eliminate odor and give softness? You can use several methods, but, unfortunately, not all of them are safe.

Preparation and Precautions

Reducing the concentration of harmful substances will help to achieve:

• Use of natural ingredients: sugar, wheat or rye.
• Standing fermentation.
• Ensuring optimal temperature during heating during distillation.

When boiling, the amount of fusel oil secretions increases, after which they settle in the tube and go outside. It is important that the temperature does not exceed 90 ° C.

Effective methods for cleansing fusel oils and odors

Available folk remedies will help clean moonshine from impurities:

• potassium permanganate;
• soda;
• coal;
• coal of wood;
• milk;
• chicken egg;
• fruits;
• bread;
• vegetable oil.

These products can be added to the drink, after which they react with fusel oils and form strong chemical compounds. Next, filtering is performed - the separation of harmful components from domestic vodka.

Activated and charcoal

The action of the substances is the same, despite the external difference. Fusel components of moonshine stick to them. But usage methods differ:

1. To filter, put cotton on the neck of the container, and coal on it.
2. Activated carbon is pounded into powder, 50 grams per liter is added to the container with the drink. Leave for a month, not forgetting to shake every day. After time, strain the moonshine through several gauze layers.
3. Using charcoal, the cleaning is the same as in the previous case. It is enough to withstand 3 days.

Coal cleansing is considered the most effective.

Potassium permanganate

To clean moonshine with potassium permanganate, do the following:

1. Prepare a solution of potassium permanganate at the rate of 1 gram per 1 liter of drink. Observe the dosage.
2. Mix everything and leave for a day.
3. When the flakes appear, strain through cheesecloth. Activated carbon can be added.

Milk

Perfect cleansing is possible with milk. It is carried out according to the following technology:

1. Pour milk into the moonshine at the rate of 1 liter per 5 liters of product. Distill several times until transparent. If you use a charcoal filter, the cleaning effect will increase.
2. If the moonshine is already distilled, add 2 liters of milk per 10 liters of raw material.
3. Soak the mixture for 7 days. Shake regularly. Protein should curl up, taking in harmful substances.
4. Then filter in the usual way. After cleansing, you can overtake again.

Egg white

Purification with egg white is the same as milk. Prepare two eggs per 1 liter of distilled mash, separate the whites from the yolks and beat a little. Add to the moonshine and mix. When the protein settles to the bottom, filter.

The main thing to remember is that eggs must be fresh. Check this easily by lowering it in water. If you do not drown, you can not use them. You can get poisoning.

Freezing

Cleaning by this method is carried out in several stages:

1. Dilute the moonshine with distilled water to 40 degrees.
2. Pour into a plastic container.
3. Put in the freezer, while the temperature should be around -20-22 ° C.
4. During the day, the distillation crystallizes. Ice crystals will contain harmful substances. After thawing, filter.

Keeping the process under control is an important part of the cycle.

Fruits

Fruit cleansing is performed as follows:

1. Remove the core from the carrot or apple.
2. Cut the fruit into small pieces.
3. Put chopped carrots or apples in a 25-degree drink.
4. Leave the moonshine until the fruit splits into fibers.
5. Filter the resulting product through cheesecloth.

Soda

In order to neutralize the acetic acid in the drink, it is recommended to clean with baking soda. Prepare 1 gram of soda per liter of moonshine. Soda acts for 10 minutes, then filter in the usual way - through several layers of gauze.

Vegetable oil

Cleaning technology:

1. The oil should be odorless.
2. Dissolve moonshine with water to 20 degrees.
3. 20 ml of oil will clear a liter of product.
4. Shake the container with the drink for 1 minute. Then, let it stand for 3 minutes.
5. Put the container for 24 hours in a cool place. Do not freeze.
6. After a day, the oil will be on the surface, carefully remove it.
7. Filter the gauze with activated carbon powder.
8. Put to get driven a second time.

Bread

Used bread from flour of the highest grades, without the addition of flavorings. Finely chop the loaf, put in a container with moonshine. Here you can add yeast. Leave for a week, shake every day. After 7 days, strain.

Household filters

Household water filters are also successfully used for filtering alcohol-containing drinks.

You will need:

• Choose a carbon filter without additives.
• Do not use a plastic container.
• Repeat cleaning three times.

How to properly filter moonshine

Moonshine filtration should be carried out thoroughly so that no harmful impurities remain. To do this, it is recommended to use gauze folded in several layers or a dense fabric. So the likelihood of fusel oil getting reduced.

At what stage to clean

To make a safe drink, you need to learn how to filter it properly. Clean moonshine from harmful impurities should be after the first haulage haul.

Useful Tips

• Do not distill and filter the moonshine in plastic containers. They tend to dissolve in alcohol.
• Cleaning products must be fresh.
• To get high-quality moonshine, it is necessary to distill at least 2 times.

Moonshine is much cheaper than purchased brandy or vodka, everyone knows this. In addition, in stores you can, by paying a lot of money, buy a low-quality product. An alcoholic drink obtained at home will not do harm if properly done. You can even give it a unique taste, and this will be appreciated not only by the owner, but also by the guests.

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