How to dilute alcohol and get alcoholic beverages

It's no secret that today it is very easy to get poisoned.alcoholic beverages purchased in the store. Neither laws on mandatory certification, nor product quality checks save. Somewhere at some stage of production or trade, an adventurous "prank" appeared - and "write - was gone!"

The ideal option is not to use.alcohol at all. A good way to protect yourself can be considered the purchase of alcoholic beverages at an expensive price - high quality and in proven, reputable supermarkets. But if these two options for a person is unacceptable?

Then there is only one way out - makingvodka at home in the presence of proven high-quality ethyl alcohol. But in order to dissolve alcohol, we also need certain knowledge and skills.

If a person knows how to dilute alcoholcorrectly, he can produce not only primitive vodka at home, but also other beverages containing alcohol in the base. For example, 40% vodka with added sugar and spices (cloves, vanilla, nutmeg), aged for half a month on oak bark, will turn into a cognac drink.

And if you dilute alcohol with juice up to 18%, then it’s quiteYou can get a very tasty drink, reminiscent of port wine or vermouth. Make it sweeter - you get liqueur. And you will dissolve spirit "tarkhun" or strong herbal broth - you can enjoy the balm.

Before you dilute the alcohol, you need to carefullyclean the water. In no case can not use water from the tap! It contains too much salt and other impurities, so a solution of alcohol with water may become cloudy. You can dilute the alcohol with distilled water or boiled and cooled to 20 degrees. Water obtained by melting ice can also be considered distilled.

You can use activated carbon. Several tablets should be thrown into a jar of water, leave the mixture at 22 degrees for three hours, then strain through several layers of gauze.

Sometimes before you dilute the alcohol, in purifiedput water flavoring. It can be acetic and citric acid, milk, flavors, as well as sugar, glucose or honey. It should be remembered that these additives should not be abused. For example, acid is enough a tablespoon to three liters of finished products, and honey or glucose - no more than 40 grams.

The quality of alcohol plays a major role in this process. Alcohols of “Lux” class are recognized as the best, in the second place is medical and “highest purity”.

It should be remembered, before diluting the alcohol, that:

1. it is not water that is poured into alcohol, but alcohol into water;
2. dilution should be carried out at a temperature of 20 degrees;
3. diluted alcohol need to defend a week in the dark and cool (temperature - not less than 4 degrees);
4. extract only improves the taste of the drink;
5. proportions in the dilution of alcohol can be viewed on the table Fertman, but you can use the ratio of 2: 3;
6. the best option is to measure the strength of the resulting drink with a special device - an alcohol meter;
7. when the solution becomes cloudy, activated charcoal is added to it, defended and filtered.

But the most important rule that applies to allpeople dealing with alcoholic beverages, is that, in addition to quality, the amount drunk is of great importance! Do not forget about it ...