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With the same risk to blindness as moonshine?
If you're going to die because you can't afford it, then does the risk really matter?
And when you do die, you won't see it coming!
I you make your own, there is no risk for blindness. Blindness comes from methanol, not ethanol. If you use a yeast based process to produce the alcohol and then distill it, there is no way to accidentally produce methanol in that process. The cases where people get blind or die from moonshine stems from when the feds replaced moonshine with methanol to be able to make that claim and disrupt the business of organized crime during the prohibition. There are still cases now and then where people try to make drinkable alcohol from some industrial base and don't know how to.
TLDR: Don't buy, make.
And use copper pot still with silver solder.
You are correct. If I gave the impression that it is a safe endeavour, I am sorry. It is safe IF done correctly, but it can get explodey if you fuck up bad enough.
Do your research, keep it small scale and don't sell.
That was due to additives to ethanol cleaning agents - it was a thing done on purpose