ethanol production

[bagendajerome]

Any one with experience separating ethanol from beer using vegetable oil to discard water followed by distillation of oil-ethanol solution?

[CaptainPanic]

Industry uses almost only distillation... both for beverages and fuels.

[the guy]

if you put it in the freezer the water will freeze leaving the ethanol at the top

[Melvin]

If you're going to distill the oil-ethanol solution, why not just distill the beer straight away?

[CaptainPanic]

Yea, I meant to say a distillation of the water-ethanol mixture is the conventional method which works fine, both on small and large scale, and both for drinks and fuels.