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LOL actually those guys make some serious bank playing video games. If you can get a sponsor and are good enough you will win big competitions. Those guys are making like $150,000 a year for that.

HMMMM well my parents said even if I dont make regionals or states then at least it was a meaningful experiment and I gained something out of it. Ya mom and dad I gained some extensive knowledge on how to brew lol. Commercial operation will begin this summer. Looks like Im going to ahve a pretty...

Hahahaha. If anything that I learned from this whole process its way easier to just buy liquor than it is to distill it. :D

Honestly I am a student my name is Jason Williams and Im a senior at Westfield High School in Westfield Massachusetts and this is my science fair project. I wasnt in school today because our school is on Mid Winter Break for the week. You can check out this...

Ya its illegal but we filled out all the proper paperwork with the state so we could do this project. The distillation process is performed under the watchful eye of a qualified scientist aka a chemistry teacher at my high school. We cant get into trouble the state might because they were the...

We did use bakers yeast in the first bucket of slop.

I did the mathematical conversions. I believe that we must have miscalculated the % alcohol in the mash. The hydrometer determined 10% alcohol is possible with the amount of sugar that we had in it. We got about 60mL from distillation which the numbers dont add up if we had 10%. We should have...

Lou thats what I was thinking. But since its for a science fair and everything hs to be supervsed in school we cannot get our hands on a big enough system. In the real world the bigger the better. It saves time from having to keep filling up and emptying and starting over. If you throw say 5...

Im going to go to a Brewer Supply tommorow and get quality yeast. I will then start another batch of garbage and see what happens. I think as the days go by my partners in the project and I are learning new things which will help us. We can use the first batch as an experimental basis and this...

It's kinda hard to imagine that that was the only alcohol produced out of all the original. Thats what is hard to think about

Hahaha Maybe you are right. I was doing the math work in my head and figured hmmm 750mL at 5% which = 37.5 mL So I made about 2 tablespoons this morning (give or take) and a tablespoon is 15mL so hmmm I guess Im not that far off. Thanks for the correction

We didnt use Brewers Yeast so that could be a problem. We used regualr yeast which works but may not be as affective.

Nah I honestly wouldnt do that. The smell of alcohol makes me feel sick. When I get older its something I can do

It is but the state scince fair approved us. We filled out all the required paperwork so our @sses are covered. Hahaha

Everything was sealed very tight with rubber stoppers. The kettle still had a condensor which consisted of copper tubing inside of the empty metal coffee can. The tubing was curled and the ice water was placed inside.

Ok heres what we did. We first gathered potatoes, rotten apples, white rice, sugar, stale cereal and cut up and then boiled. After boiling we mashed everything and covered it up in a 5 gallon bucket. Once the mixture cooled down to around 77-80 degrees F we got some water and put corn syrup in...

173 degrees F -200 degrees F Would this then be normal since obviously the still isnt 100% efficient to not be getting that much out?

it might be that we dont have enough alcohol concentration in the mixture or that we are not boiling for a long enough period of time. Please some one help because science fair is March 1st

Hi Im new to these forums. Im not sure if this question can be answered but Ill give it a try. Im currently working on my science fair project for school and Im turning garbage into alcohol by fermentation and then distilling it so it can be used as an alternative energy source. Basically Im...