I have heard of that, they still poison ethanol nowadays for that purpose I hear. Meanwhile in prohibition they had medical alcohol and people bribed officials to get huge amounts of real liquor.
You get some methanol in making liquor. It depends mostly on things like fruit peels, or gin because of the juniper. That is why you dump everything produced from 160 degrees until 180, as methanol has a lower boiling point.
The antidote to methanol is alcohol though. But you have 20 minutes before permanent damage results. And death is one of those damages.
The blindness is because it makes formic acid in your blood, the same stuff red ants and stinging nettles use.
Alcohol has preferential binding on the receptors, so it pushes off the methanol.
I have heard of that, they still poison ethanol nowadays for that purpose I hear. Meanwhile in prohibition they had medical alcohol and people bribed officials to get huge amounts of real liquor.
You get some methanol in making liquor. It depends mostly on things like fruit peels, or gin because of the juniper. That is why you dump everything produced from 160 degrees until 180, as methanol has a lower boiling point.
The antidote to methanol is alcohol though. But you have 20 minutes before permanent damage results. And death is one of those damages.
The blindness is because it makes formic acid in your blood, the same stuff red ants and stinging nettles use.
Alcohol has preferential binding on the receptors, so it pushes off the methanol.