The problem with home-brewed Cambodian rice wine
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The problem with home-brewed Cambodian rice wine
Article on Cambodian brewers of rice wine, and the victims of the traditional brew...
Brewing rice wine is a way of life in Cambodia – until it turns deadly
September 29, 2017 14:58
In much of rural Cambodia, rice wine is an everyday part of village life. But when disaster strikes like when a bad batch killed 15 in Kampong Chhnang province last December determining who is to blame is no easy task.
When the police came there was little Chheurng Ing could do but watch. First they took away her wine – made from rice that the 48-year-old had cultivated herself in Kampong Chhnang’s Teuk Phos district.
A few days later the police came to confiscate her materials – the yeast and bowls and jars she used to brew and distil the liquor under her wooden roof for more than 15 years.
Finally, they arrested her husband – a man named Phan Vy, 50, who prosecutors later claimed had added methanol to his wife’s wine in an attempt to make it more alcoholic, sickening more than 90 people in the commune in a mass poisoning last December that left 15 dead...
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/aec/30328025
Brewing rice wine is a way of life in Cambodia – until it turns deadly
September 29, 2017 14:58
In much of rural Cambodia, rice wine is an everyday part of village life. But when disaster strikes like when a bad batch killed 15 in Kampong Chhnang province last December determining who is to blame is no easy task.
When the police came there was little Chheurng Ing could do but watch. First they took away her wine – made from rice that the 48-year-old had cultivated herself in Kampong Chhnang’s Teuk Phos district.
A few days later the police came to confiscate her materials – the yeast and bowls and jars she used to brew and distil the liquor under her wooden roof for more than 15 years.
Finally, they arrested her husband – a man named Phan Vy, 50, who prosecutors later claimed had added methanol to his wife’s wine in an attempt to make it more alcoholic, sickening more than 90 people in the commune in a mass poisoning last December that left 15 dead...
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/aec/30328025
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Re: The problem with home-brewed Cambodian rice wine
The problem isn't the rice wine, it's ignorance (assuming the guy wasn't deliberately trying to poison everyone).
You could be next.
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Re: The problem with home-brewed Cambodian rice wine
they do not discard the methanol foreshots at the beginning of the run
if they mix it throughout the whole run it is less harmful
but if it all ends up in a single bottle it is deadly
if they mix it throughout the whole run it is less harmful
but if it all ends up in a single bottle it is deadly
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Re: The problem with home-brewed Cambodian rice wine
Wine (palm wine, rice wine etc.,) is a fermentation and can give you a splitting headache and loose guts for 3 days.
A distillate can kill IF the product which results from the process of production is methanol - not ethanol.
A distillate can kill IF the product which results from the process of production is methanol - not ethanol.
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