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Originally Posted by bopdude
How / why is Methaniol bad for your eyes, it used to go into a pharmacutical product we made, I'm just asking by the by, as we never were told anything, baring don't drink it, hard as to get a hold of it as well, but worth it IMO
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One of the dangers of distilling your own alcohol is they you can end up with Methanol, (as opposed Ethanol, which is drinking Alcohol). Both are alcohols, but Methanol can make you go blind.
An ex of mine spent some time in India, and she said it was not uncommon there for 50-100 people to go blind from drinking dodgy booze at a wedding.
I think the problem is specific to distilling, rather than brewing.
When you say 'worth it', I hope you took the advice and didn't drink it?