--- Jeff Renner > wrote: >"Bruce R. Gordon" wrote that Owen Hutchins wrote: > >> vinager, specifically >>> acetic acid, is biologically oxidized methly alcohol, and can only be formed >>> from methyl alcohol. > >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. /Angus MacIomhair == 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