Pubs passing off home-made brews as premium liquor

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Pubs passing off home-made brews as premium liquor
By KULDEEP S. JESSY

KUALA LUMPUR: From the labels, a person could be duped into thinking they are famous liquor brands.

Beware. The brandy or premium whisky that you get at your favourite club or pub could be nothing more than a home-brewed concoction of mineral water, caramel and sub-quality liquor.

Enforcement officers from the Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry who raided a house in Taman Prima Impian in Segambut here believe some entertainment outlets in the Klang Valley may be serving this homemade liquor to their customers.

The enforcers seized 1,000 bottles of adulterated liquor that can fetch about RM50,000 for the producer from the house in the noon raid on Wednesday.

A 25-year-old man, believed to be involved in the illegal brewing, was arrested, and brewing equipment seized.

The ministry’s investigations unit director Rosley Abdullahz said the liquor, easily passed off as genuine, was being sold at entertainment outlets.

The unit had started to trace the nightclubs and pubs that had bought the cheap liquor, Rosley said, adding that the man had used the rented house as a brewery and store for about three months.

He said investigations showed that the suspect had been arrested and released on bail for committing a similar offence last year.

http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/1/19/nation/16608659&sec=nation
 
I don't understand why this is funny, but it is. Maybe because each time I point out that as long as something is taxed, there will be some underhanded techniques in it's market someone goes "Oh yeah, what about alcohol?"
 
That is half the reason, but home brewed alcohol can be dangerous. There can be dangerous levels of methanol in it sometimes.
 
Splatt said:
That is half the reason, but home brewed alcohol can be dangerous. There can be dangerous levels of methanol in it sometimes.
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Sorry to be pedantic but it's home distilled alcohol that can sometimes be dangerous. Homebrewed stuff, be it beer or wine isn't dangerous (though if fermentation conditions are less than ideal then traces of methanol and higher alcohols can give you a nasty hangover). When distilling you concentrate the alcohol contents of your brew. If you fail to throw away the methanol fraction (lower boiling point, comes off first) then you can end up with a harmful concentration in your liquor.
 
Well, luckily I stay away from them too.. It's just cannabis and psychedelics for me..

And I test my pills too, if it's something I don't like, I don't take 'em. And lidocaine with my cocaine still beats the hell out of alcohol and cigarettes
 
fengtau said:
Beware. The brandy or premium whisky that you get at your favourite club or pub could be nothing more than a home-brewed concoction of mineral water, caramel and sub-quality liquor.
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Couldn't the drinker taste difference if it's lower quality, or watered down?
 
Not necessarily. You can distill alcohol to 192 proof. thats 96% alcohol. Most liquors are 70-100 proof...35-50% alcohol. The mineral water isnt to make the product low in alcohol, rather to make it similar to real liqor in content. The caramel is for flavor and most importantly...color.

So you can turn 1 gallon of distilled alcohol into 2 gallons of liquor thats 96 proof

Nice scheme. There are still large illegal stills in the USA making plenty of cash.
 
ehh, if im ordering chivas or johnny black, im sure as hell going to know if its not. now when it comes to vodka, that for me is a different story, i wouldnt kno what the heck i was getting.
 
A lot of people think they could taste the difference. A lot of people(who arent liquor connoisseurs) are wrong. Beer and wine are very easy to taste a difference in, but If the distiller is really skilled and has the right ingredients he can replicate quite a decent bit of liquors. Alcohol is alcohol. Vodka = cake, and some whiskeys are the easiest to duplicate. For example, southern comfort, has a caramel flavor.

The liquors hard to duplicate would be your aged whiskeys and scotches tequila.

Sure it may be off, but most people who arent connoisseurs cant tel the difference. Its funny, because I saw this guy who had one batch of coke. He let people try half, then he dyed the other half beige and re-rocked it and let them try half a few days later.

Everyone said the beige colored stuff was WAY better. Not only that, it "blew the other stuff he had OUT of the WATER"

The mind works in curious ways.... You can get one thing and your mind will tell you its something else.
 
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