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Because methanol is cheaper than distilled alcohol. dagen: the fermentation process. it is two different types of alcohol, methanol versus ethanol alcohol. that is the kind of alcohol in beer, wine, liquor. tyrence: i m learning so much right now. dagen: two-thirds of a shot of methanol could cause permanent blindness. that is the old joke about drinking moonshine it makes you blind. i don t mean to interrupt tyrence: please do. if you called anybody who s ever made real moonshine and still in the woods, the first thing they will tell you is throw away the first cut. juan: jesse, this is so interesting. a revelation because i thought someone was poisoning the alcohol. they say no, bad, bad distilleries. jesse come again for the whole argument from conservatives typically less government, less regulation. this would be an argument for thank god the government is telling people how to do this ....
Some phone calls about how thist somebody putting methanol into the alcohol. what happens, when you distill moonshine come into very first vapor to boil off during distillation, this contains most volatile alcohol including methanol and it s called the 4 shot, southern lingo, throw away the first cut. because that is where the very dangerous methanol is. it comes from pectin when you make corn liquor. corn has pectin in it and that s why you get that toxicity in this alcohol. it is basically somebody that doesn t know how to make moonshine making it and someone that doesn t want to throw anything away. and they make as much as possible so they have higher margin and they make money whatever illegal alcohol they are selling. but they have no way of detecting juan: this is really new to me. tyrence: no one is following this. juan: into the bottom ....