Please explain to me the fermentation process.
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There are about 111 different yeasts used in various forms of fermentation.
Each yeast will consume carbs in the base material. As they do so, they produce two types of alcohol, ethyl and methyl.
Ethyl is what you find in professionally brewed products such as beer, wine and spirits. Methyl is the stuff that makes you blind.
Methyl becomes formic acid in your blood stream and that substance will attack your optic nerve. This kind of blindness is not repairable. You will not heal.
Most moonshiners know that when you distill alcohol, you throw away the first part of the batch. Methyl is a lightest of the alcohol chains and it will come out first. So, they either burn off the first part of a batch or toss in with some gasoline to run their lawn toys.
Figuring out when you have tossed enough of the batch is as much art as science. Experience counts, but knowing what you are doing is far more successful.
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