8 ways to purify alcohol

1) Fusel oils
2) Cleaning with potassium permanganate
3) Purification with charcoal
4) Purification with milk/egg white
5) Cleaning by freezing
6) Cleaning with soda
7) Cleaning with oil
8) Cleaning with bread

Fusel oils

You can determine their presence by setting fire to it: a quality drink will burn well, while alcohol with harmful impurities will not.

The oily liquid left after burning is the very harmful fuselage compounds. They cause a severe hangover and negatively affect the entire body.

A test for impurities is also carried out by dripping alcohol on the glass. After a good product dries, there will be no stains on the surface.

Important to remember, that the most dangerous components in homemade alcohol are fusel oils.

Follow the distillation technology when making moonshine: maintain optimal temperature parameters, regularly replace the cooling water, etc. д.

As for the finished product, many methods have been invented to purify it and improve its flavor and aroma: from filtration and straining to infusing alcohol with herbs, citrus fruits, honey, hops, and special preparations.

The drink is filtered in different ways: through special household devices, through a multi-layer gauze cloth, charcoal and cotton wool.

Soften - with glucose, fructose, ascorbic acid, lemon, burnt sugar and glycerin.

Cleaning with potassium permanganate

For 3 liters of moonshine you need 2-3 grams of potassium permanganate. Before use, the drug can be diluted in water (1:100) and add 1 tablespoon of salt and soda to it.

Method of application

Throw the potassium permanganate into alcohol.
Wait for the sediment to fall out.
Carefully pour the moonshine through a cotton filter.

Purification with charcoal

The best effect is obtained by burning birch logs and household carbon filters for water. But you can also use ordinary coconut, barbecue, activated charcoal: for 1 liter of moonshine, you will need 50 g of the product.

Option 1

Crush the coals, throw them into the alcohol.
Let the mixture brew for 1 to 3 weeks, stirring from time to time.
Pass the drink through a cotton gauze filter.
Repeat the process several times, replacing the coal mass with fresh for each stage.

Option 2

Make a watering can from several cotton layers, finely and coarsely crushed coal.
Cover the last coal bed with cotton pads.
Pass the moonshine of the first distillation through a funnel.

Option 3

Light a fire from birch logs.
After the firewood has burned out, pour the hot coals into a clay vessel, blow off the ash.
Seal the container with a lid, wait until the charcoal is completely extinguished, remove it from the pot, cool it down and crush it coarsely.
Pass the moonshine through the coal mass or throw it into a container with a drink (filter it after 3 weeks).

Purification with milk/egg white

To purify and soften the alcohol, use pasteurized milk of low fat content (up to 1.5%): 1 glass is needed for 20 liters of moonshine/vodka.

If the drink is cloudy after filtration, you need to throw the peel of a citrus fruit into it for 1 day.

If you use egg peeling, take 2 whites for 3 liters of alcoholic product and beat them in 1 glass of warm water.

Method of application

Add milk/protein mass to alcohol, shake.
Cover the container with a lid, put it in a dark corner at room temperature for 1 week.
During the first 5 days, stir the drink regularly, do not touch the last 2 days.
Pass the moonshine through a multi-layer cotton filter.

Cleaning by freezing

A side effect of this method is to increase the strength of the product.

Method of application

Pour alcohol into a saucepan with a lid, send to the freezer.
Wait half a day, drain the purified drink.
Additionally, you can filter the alcohol through a sieve and a paper funnel.

Cleaning with soda

This option helps to eliminate acetic acid. You will need 10 grams of baking soda per 1 liter.

Method of application

Pour baking soda into the alcohol.
Leave on for 12 hours.
Filter through cotton wool.

Cleaning with oil

You will need 20 grams of vegetable oil per 1 liter of alcohol.

Method of application

Pour the oil into the moonshine.
Shake the vessel 6 times with an interval of 5 minutes.
Let the drink stand for half a day.
Carefully pour off the alcohol through a straw.
Filter the drink through cotton wool.

Cleaning with bread

This method is considered to be one of the most natural and effective. The drink not only becomes clearer, but also acquires a more pleasant aroma and taste. Simple cleaning with charcoal or protein is required beforehand. For 1 liter of moonshine/alcohol, 100 grams of rye crumb is required, which is finely crushed before use.

Method of application

Pour bread crumbs into alcohol and stir thoroughly.
Tightly seal the vessel, put it in the dark and cool for half a week.
Filter the infusion without squeezing the bread mass.

Purification and flavoring with fruits/herbs/spices

These methods not only help to eliminate impurities, but also improve the flavor and aroma properties of the product, give it a beautiful color. In addition to the above recipes, use the infusion of moonshine on wormwood leaves and flowers, currant buds, various fruits, violet root.

Option 1

For 3 liters of alcohol, you will need 1 apple/carrot/citrus fruit.

Method of application

Coarsely chop the fruit/vegetable, add to the alcohol.
After a few days, when the vegetable fibers begin to detach, remove the vegetable/fruit.
Pass the drink through the filter.

Option 2

The process produces a drink similar to cognac. The list of ingredients can be modified by adding and removing some of them. Also used: bitter pepper, cinnamon, instant and ground coffee.

Ingredients