how do you make patchine alcohol? and what do you distill it in?

Question

I want to know how to make patchine (potato skins is one ingredient) but wat else do you need to make it?

Answer 1

Much as it has a beautiful flavour when made professionally, Poteen is very dangerous to make at home. Poteen is triple distilled and even if you forget the fact that it is illegal to distill at home, it is a known killer. Home distilling is dangerous, only the middle part of the liquid produced by the distillation process is usable, the first and last part are poisonous. It is possible to go blind if you dont know what you are doing. Much better to buy the stuff.

Answer 2

Poitin (or however you want to spell it: none of the variations are strictly correct) is basically just Irish for distilled booze. Like vodka it can be distilled from almost anything.
There is a tradition of using potatoes in Ireland, but the good stuff is usually made from grain - if you're really unlucky you may get some made from wood-alcohol :(

Answer 3

Much as it has a beautiful flavour when made professionally, Poteen is very dangerous to make at home. Poteen is triple distilled and even if you forget the fact that it is illegal to distill at home, it is a known killer. Home distilling is dangerous, only the middle part of the liquid produced by the distillation process is usable, the first and last part are poisonous. It is possible to go blind if you dont know what you are doing. Much better to buy the stuff.

Answer 4

Hi Tino

You would need sh!tloads of potato skins mate as you get very little alcohol from them. You would also need to build a "still" to distil the mash. A mash is the skins boiled up and allowed to cool and ferment. A still is a big bin like an oil drum with a copper coil that you use to heat the mash after fermentation.

It really wouldn't be worth your while as you dont get much alcohol from a lot of skins. a m8 of mine made a small still in college years ago and distilled a bottle of martini, that is 17% alcohol. He didnt get enough pure alcohol to hardly wet his tongue.

Answer 5

Poteen/Poitin is simply the Irish equivalent of "Moonshine"

You can use potatoes, grain, sugar, whatever. Make up some kind of beer-like homebrew (without hops) and then when it's done fermenting, distill it.

http://homedistiller.org/wash-grain2.htm#poitin

Answer 6

patchine alcohol distill in: https://bitly.im/c19/how-do-you-make-patchine-alcohol-and-what-do-you-distill-it-in

Answer 7

ok you mean potcheen, also spelled as poteen or poitin.

Do a search on the correct spellings and you might get somewhere

Answer 8

actually it,s now legal..go on to the web site..type potcheen in yahoo search...it,s got a funny man in green dancing the irish jig...good luck in finding how to make it.

Answer 9

Man...! you'll just blow your arm off!

Answer 10

It's illegal mate :)