To improve the quality of the distillate, moonshiners use any available methods of purification from harmful impurities. The most popular were soda and potassium permanganate. With the right approach, the use of these substances makes sense. We will look at how to clean moonshine with soda (separately or together with potassium permanganate and alkali) so that anyone can repeat this process.
The lower the strength of moonshine, the better it can be cleaned. Therefore, at first I advise you to dilute the drink to the desired strength (40 degrees), and only then clean it.
Soda cleaning technology
1. Dilute soda at the rate of 10 grams per 1 liter of moonshine in approximately the same amount of water to obtain a concentrated solution. For example, to clean 10 liters of moonshine, you need 100 grams of soda and 100 ml of water.
2. Pour the soda solution into the moonshine.
3. Close the jar with a lid, shake well.
4. Infuse for 30-40 minutes.
5. Shake again, put the jar in a dark place for 12-14 hours.
6. Drain the moonshine from the sediment and filter through cotton wool or charcoal.
Cleaning with soda, potassium permanganate and alkali
Combined method, well proven. Potassium permanganate removes fusel oils, baking soda – acetic acid, alkali (caustic soda) – other harmful impurities. With the right approach, these three substances do not interfere with each other. As a result, the entire cleaning takes less time, the quality becomes better, and the moonshine has no unpleasant smell. If there is no alkali, you can limit yourself to baking soda and potassium permanganate.
Sequencing
1. Dilute potassium permanganate in a glass of water at the rate of 1,5 grams per 1 liter of moonshine.
2. Make a soda solution according to the 1st paragraph of the previous method.
3. Pour a solution of baking soda into the moonshine, mix, add potassium permanganate.
4. Infuse for 20-30 minutes.
5. Dilute alkali with water in equal proportions at the rate of alkali 2 grams per 1 liter of moonshine. It is important to pour alkali, and not add it to water.
6. Close the moonshine with a lid and put in a dark place for 12-14 hours (until sediment appears at the bottom of the jar).
7. Filter the drink through cotton or charcoal.
Attention! After cleaning, I advise you to do a second distillation of moonshine. This is very important in the case of using potassium permanganate, which, when interacting with ethyl alcohol, releases a number of harmful substances (potassium hydroxide, manganese oxide, etc.). Drinking moonshine without distillation with the remnants of soda and manganese decay products is not safe.