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48 Hour turbo and sugar distillation comes out blue, smells like death, (not alcohol, ether someone thought.) (doineedaurltopost.fuckme)
submitted 1 week ago by to c/homebrewing@sopuli.xyz
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It was just a bucket with water and sugar, both white and brown, 4 and 4 pounds of each in about 4 gallons of water, and the stovetop distiller came out blue, it even seemed to be more blue the next day. I retched up the bit I drank before I realized how bad it was.

Anyone experience this before? Is there a reason this 48 hour turbo yeast, sugar, and water, in a bucket, could come out blue?

Thanks for any help, brewing supply has no answers, the internet search engines are giving me nothing on point.

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[–] 2 points 1 week ago

I don't know for sure, but it sounds like you ended up with something unexpected in your mix. It's possible something strange is growing in there.

Because of the blue coloring, it seems more likely that some unexpected compound is reacting with the copper parts. You mentioned the yeast you used tastes bad. Any chance it has the skunky or rotten egg taste like sulphur? Copper isn't usually very reactive, but it does react pretty readily with sulfur and some of the resulting compounds have a vibrant blue color and would taste awful.

Either way it's probably a bad idea to drink it.

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