Can homebrew make me go blind?

[orangehero]

Ok, ok, prison wine.

First sneak a juice into your room each day until you have enough to 3/4 fill the glass jar you managed to steal from the kitchen. Add the occasional sugar packet if your lucky. Get a couple of cracker packets, crumble into a clean sock. Pour juice into the sock into the glass jar to gather some baker's yeast. Talk a lady boy into giving you a condom. This goes over the mouth of the glass jar. This serves two purposes, one it keeps nasty germs out, two as it inflates and farts, you know it's fermenting. When the condom goes limp, fermentation is complete. Drink up and enjoy.

Some other day I can tell you how to make fruit roll ups with a juice and ramen noodles.

Glass jars and ladyboys with condoms, huh? That's some fancy minimum security equipment there.

 

[Chadwick]

I'm 99.9996321% sure the OP was a troll. Anyone even half-way serious about brewing real beer, while having the mental capacity to do it, wouldn't approach a forum dedicated to fine brewing with a post like that.

The OP was either:
A) a troll
B) a kid
C) incarcerated in a prison for the mentally challenged
D) some ignorant activist we are yet to learn about

This list is in order from most likely --> least likely.

 

[Rockn_M]

I'm 99.9996321% sure the OP was a troll. Anyone even half-way serious about brewing real beer, while having the mental capacity to do it, wouldn't approach a forum dedicated to fine brewing with a post like that.

The OP was either:
A) a troll
B) a kid
C) incarcerated in a prison for the mentally challenged
D) some ignorant activist we are yet to learn about

This list is in order from most likely --> least likely.

I'm thinking kid or troll.

 

[fastengine]

Here is the absolute truth as I say it. There is NO WAY a 5 gallon ferment will create enough methanol to make you go blind. PEIRIOD!!!
Drinking the foreshots from 10 15 gallon moonshine ferments won't make you go blind, just give you a massive hangover. It was a goberment lie and poison added to ferments during prohibition that caused Jake leg, blindness and toothloss.
Worst case is you will need glasses, dentures and a cane if you drink bad alcohol

 

[Chadwick]

It is actually possible to hurt yourself making home brew if you are completely inept and clueless. Prisoners across the nation are poisoning themselves with botulism because they are trying to make unsanitary hooch with potato skins and dried bread with ketchup.

The danger with the OP's post is that it might be some dumb kid that will do any stupid thing he/she thinks might get them high. And if that kid does cause harm to his/herself the parents might link it back to us.

I think this child needs reminded that underage drinking/manufacturing of alcohol in any form is illegal and dangerous to ones health if done with reckless abandon, I.E., how every dumb kid will do things, and the OP needs banned for: Take your pick
1) being an underage kid trying to procure unlawful carnal knowledge
2) being a troll
3) for basically being reckless and harmful to the health of our site by being either 1 or 2 or some other type of reckless and irresponsible person.

I'd like to add that the recipe the OP provided screams of "reckless and clueless". It would be different if they approached us talking about forms of sake and rice wine. But this is not the case. They are clearly only looking to ferment anything with some form of alcohol in it for the sake of the alcohol in it. If they listed raw potato skins as part of the recipe would anyone have been able sound the alarms fast enough before this OP claimed we inspired it?

 

[72hw]

Sorry, but how many 'kids' today know about Dewey Decimal.... I mean come on, a troll is a troll by any other name.

And besides, with such ready access to bath salts, methamphetamine, Slim Jims and other mind altering substances, what kid in thier right mind would try and stash a mash tun under thier mattress?

"No seriously Mom, it's pond water for my science class! I have no idea why it's bubbling and smells like dad does after he comes home late!"

 

[Chadwick]

Sorry, but how many 'kids' today know about Dewey Decimal.... I mean come on, a troll is a troll by any other name.

And besides, with such ready access to bath salts, methamphetamine, Slim Jims and other mind altering substances, what kid in thier right mind would try and stash a mash tun under thier mattress?

"No seriously Mom, it's pond water for my science class! I have no idea why it's bubbling and smells like dad does after he comes home late!"

Ok then, guilty of argument #2. There we have it.

 

[Chadwick]

oh wait, here is even a worse scenario. What if the OP is the parent pretending to be the kid. They are planning to poison their kid and then use our website as the protagonist. They jump in and accuse us as being the inspiration for why their kid made botulism brew and drank it and died.

Seriously though, kids these days are hunting down bed bugs so they can smoke them. I'm not making this stuff up. I didn't believe it at first either. Kid these days....God help them. I'm beginning to think the human race is un-evolving back into monkeys.

 

[1977Brewer]

You're looking for devolve. But we're not. Kids are kids.

OP, f'real though, give mommy her laptop back and go smoke some grapevine behind the gym.

 

[AkTom]

I can't believe I read 4 pages of this. I'm the dip.

 

[CanAusBrewer]

Sounds more like he's making something he is intending to distill to me.

 

[normonster]

Homebrew can make you go blind just like spankin the monkey.

 

[normonster]

it is actually possible to hurt yourself making home brew if you are completely inept and clueless. Prisoners across the nation are poisoning themselves with botulism because they are trying to make unsanitary hooch with potato skins and dried bread with ketchup.

The danger with the op's post is that it might be some dumb kid that will do any stupid thing he/she thinks might get them high. And if that kid does cause harm to his/herself the parents might link it back to us.

I think this child needs reminded that underage drinking/manufacturing of alcohol in any form is illegal and dangerous to ones health if done with reckless abandon, i.e., how every dumb kid will do things, and the op needs banned for: Take your pick
1) being an underage kid trying to procure unlawful carnal knowledge
2) being a troll
3) for basically being reckless and harmful to the health of our site by being either 1 or 2 or some other type of reckless and irresponsible person.

I'd like to add that the recipe the op provided screams of "reckless and clueless". It would be different if they approached us talking about forms of sake and rice wine. But this is not the case. They are clearly only looking to ferment anything with some form of alcohol in it for the sake of the alcohol in it. If they listed raw potato skins as part of the recipe would anyone have been able sound the alarms fast enough before this op claimed we inspired it?

wtf?

 

[CanAusBrewer]

Yup some people need to relax

 

[xdfxdgh]

Touching yourself at night makes you go blind.

 

[passedpawn]

Closed. Looks way to close to a hooch or underage thread to continue, at least in this Beginners area.

Reading this thread will make you go blind.