--- Henry Davis > wrote: >At 10:03 AM 10/23/01 -0700, you wrote: > > >> >No, no, no, no, no. Sorry to be so hard on what you've written, >> >Owen, but I'm afraid you've simply got it wrong. After all, the word >> >"vinegar" comes from the French "vinaigre," meaning sour wine. And >> >that is what it is - soured wine (or cider, etc.). >> >>I'm not sure Owen missed the mark completely. Isn't industrially produced >>vinegar made with methyl alcohol ? I can't remember the other reactants >>though. > > >According to my sources it's based on ethyl alcohol. > >Henry I checked the NE and methanol is NOT involved either when you make it at home by adding bacteria to cider/beer/wine or industrially. The industrial process used butane at high temp and pressure for one method, can't remember the other one. Now if I could only remember what process I was thinking of. I'm going to be up all night pondering and as usual I'll probably have a lightbulb moment probably during friday when I'll be brewing this years Xmas Beer. /Angus, prepared to lose some sleep. == If you look at the sun without shielding your eyes you'll go blind. If you look at the moon without shielding your eyes you'll become a poet. _____________________________________________________________ Get your own mando cool and totally free email@iamawitch.com address at http://freemail.iamawitch.com today! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send email to majordomo@pbm.com containing the words "unsubscribe hist-brewing" (or unsubscribe hist-brewing-digest, if you get the digest.) To contact a human about problems, send mail to owner-hist-brewing@pbm.com