Vodka disaster
At 14 or thereabouts,I read that one could make a drinkable vodka substitute from discarded potato peelings. Cue disastrous distillation experiment. Having no spuds to hand, I settled for sprouts and cooked these up with other bits of vegetable matter until I had a green gunge, which I then attempted to ferment in the garden shed with some yeast nicked from Mum's baking cupboard.
After a few days, I reckoned that there must be enough alcohol in the bubbly green soup to justify distillation. With a home-made still made from a metal bike bottle & plastic tubing, I put my first batch of voddie on the kitchen stove.
Sadly, as soon as it got hot, the (very bright)green sludge blocked the tubing & the resulting pressure blew out the top - along with a pint of boiling gloop which coated the kitchen ceiling and dripped everywhere.
There followed a panicky hour cleaning up & repainting the ceiling tiles with dap whitener before the parents came home. I couldn't believe they hadn't seen , but they said nothing - thanks M&P...
(grumpypolecat, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 20:11, 1 reply)

How could I not vote for sprout vodka?
It's even phonetically perfect.
(vicarius, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 22:41, closed)