Wrong to get rid of alcohol?

[underacloud]

It’s safe. I guess it would be some kind of schnapps.
It’s not about money, our culture is traditionally very fond of such things. No one would notice if it disappeared, but if I told anyone I tossed it, there would be an uproar.

I just don’t see the point of keeping it around since we don’t use it, can’t pass it on as a gift since it’s not a label.
It’s cherry and very sweet, useless for cleaning.

Sounds more like they have simply flavoured a spirit base than distilled the spirits themselves? I would not touch home-made spirits, but home-made liqueurs are usually harmless.

But either way, there’s nothing wrong with throwing it out.

 

[MyLittlPwn13]

It isn’t as if moonshiners are known for their extra care and precautions in maintaining sanitary conditions.

As a homebrewer, I take exception to that remark!

Seriously, though, if it isn’t going to get used, there’s no reason to keep it. Just recycle the bottles.

 

[Ms_Manners]

I’ll join Lazarus and ajec at your place, what time should we stop by?

Any time after lunch is good, any day you can find cheap transatlantic flights.

 

[JorduSpeaks]

Is it wasteful to throw away perfectly good food? Yes, but it’s just as wasteful to eat more food than you can enjoy simply because it’s there (also, it’s waist-ful) or let it turn to garbage in your fridge. I’d assume the same principle applies to your alcohol situation. I’d also say it’s wasteful to give lots of alcohol to people who don’t really drink.

If it makes you feel any better, as long as they got joy from the act of making the beverages or the act of gifting them, then they got some value from it, which means it didn’t completely go to waste.

 

[EasterJoy]

You can do what you want with it. It isn’t expensive to buy a bottle of vodka to keep around the house if you want to offer it to guests. I wouldn’t keep any moonshine around the house because I would be worried about its extra potency and the potential for methanol poisoning. It isn’t as if moonshiners are known for their extra care and precautions in maintaining sanitary conditions.

I find it highly unlikely that homemade liquors given as gifts were made from spirits distilled at home. Usually it is a cordial made by combining flavoring ingredients in a simple syrup prepared in a home kitchen with a commercially-prepared distilled spirit, usually one with a mild or neutral flavor profile, such as vodka.

As for the sanitary conditions, that is far more of a concern with home-canned preserves and flavored oils. The high concentration of alcohol and sugar in liquors is not hospitable to microbes.

 

[Morwenna]

This fall, take it and pour it in a large container or carboy. Take a bunch of fresh-picked organic apples. After coring the apples (removing the apple cores), add them to your mixture in the carboy. Then put a couple layers of cheese cloth over the container bound by a couple rubber bands. Wait at room temp. for a couple weeks (kept in dark place like a closet).

Now you have vinegar that you can bottle and use for washing produce that you bring in from your garden (or from the store), and can clean with it too.

When you put the bucket of cut up apples into your mixture (earlier), you can even add some chopped basil etc. for a nice flavored cooking vinegar if you are so inclined (or you can just cook with the cider vinegar you just made).

Hope this idea helps you.

God bless.

Cathoholic

What a neat idea!

 

[Sophie_Lawrence]

Vodka (if you have that) can be used as a cleaner, and for other household uses.

kitchendaily.com/read/15-unusual-uses-vodka#show-gallery