Making toilet paper moonshine

So for this video, I'm gonna be doing exactly  what the title says, and I'm gonna be turning toilet paper, into drinkable alcohol. I don't  know exactly where this idea came from, but about six months ago, I became convinced that this  conversion was possible. This is because toilet paper, and well pretty much all paper, is made  almost entirely of cellulose.

Cellulose naturally occurs in almost all plants, and we use it to  make everything, from cotton clothing, to paper or cardboard. What I've always found interesting  though, is that at the core of it, it's just a chain of simple glucose sugar molecules. Sugar is  something that we usually associate with food, but in cellulose the glucose units have been strung  together in a very specific way, which gives it completely different properties.

This has always  blown my mind because it means that our clothing and almost all paper, is basically made out of  sugar, and wood is also about 50% cellulose, so a lot of our houses are also kind of made out  of sugar. For the most part though, cellulose is very resistant to degradation, and the glucose  is mostly inaccessible. However the fact that some animals and microbes have developed ways  to break it back down into glucose, told me that there had to be a way that I could do it.

Based  on this, my dream was to start with a cellulose source like toilet paper, and then somehow chop  it up, to make a solution of glucose. Into that I could then throw in some brewer's yeast to turn  it into alcohol, and then I could distill it, to make some weird toilet paper moonshine. The  biggest challenge of this project was of course the first part, which was breaking down the  cellulose.

To do this there were two main ways, either chemically or enzymatically, and both of  them had their own pros and cons. The chemical method was more efficient, but it involved using a  lot of acid, which would be hard to separate from the sugar, after it was done. I would have most  likely ended up having to neutralize all the acid, and I figured that this would both be wasteful,  and kind of messy.

The enzyme method on the other hand, appeared to be less efficient and  even take longer, but from what I could tell, it was a lot cleaner and much easier to set up.  After thinking about it for a good while, I felt that I liked the enzymatic way better, so the next  thing that I had to, do was buy some enzyme. The enzyme that I need to break down the cellulose  was called cellulase, and the cheapest source of it that I could find was from a company called the  Alchemist's Pantry.

They were a brewing company, and was all supposed to be food grade stuff,  so it was almost perfect and I bought a bag of it. it also clearly stated that all the cellulase  came from yeast, and not bacteria and I'll explain why this was important later on. But anyway, the  enzyme was being shipped from Europe, and it was gonna take a few weeks to arrive.

So while I was  waiting for it, I figured that it was a good time, to actually put together the process, that I was  going to be doing. It honestly took me a while to figure it all out, but after a bunch of research,  I eventually came up, with something that was relatively simple. To do it, all he needed was  some basic equipment, and a few easy-to-get chemicals.

When the enzyme eventually arrived,  I considered doing some small-scale tests, to verify that what I came up with worked, but it  was such a simple process, that I decided to just wing it and go all in. If it ended up working  it would save me a lot of time, and I figured that at worst, I would have a bunch of sad failure  footage, that could be used for something. So now to get started, the first thing that I needed was  some toilet paper.

I'm pretty sure that almost any brand would have worked, but I specifically went  with the one with the fluffy kittens on it. Toilet paper is one of the least densely packed forms of  paper, which means that it has a lot of potential surface area, for enzymes to attack it. However  this doesn't necessarily mean, that it's easier for enzymes to break it down.

At the molecular  level, the cellulose fibers are still tightly packed together, and it's hard for cellulase to do  anything. If I just directly mix the enzyme with the toilet paper, not very much would happen,  and it would probably make little to no sugar. To fix this problem though it wasn't very hard,  and I just had to pretreat the cellulose, with a dilute base.

So I got out a large pot, and into it  I added 3L of distilled water, followed by 60g of sodium hydroxide drain cleaner. This would give me  roughly a 2% base solution, and I stirred it until everything dissolved. Then I slowly added one  entire roll, and as you would expect with toilet paper, it quickly started soaking it up.

After  about 10s, it was completely full of water, and I tried to break it up as much as I could. I also  pulled out the cardboard tube from the center, because I wanted to keep this purely just toilet  paper. I was eventually left with a nice and mushy toilet paper stew, and the next thing to do was to  basically cook it.

To do this I just put it onto a cheap Ikea induction heater, and I cranked up  the power. It all slowly heated up, and when it eventually got to a boil, I turned down the power  to keep it at a light simmer. I tried stirring it often to prevent it from splashing, but it didn't  really seem to help.

It apparently just loves splattering boiling hot water everywhere, and  I found that putting on the lid, was absolutely necessary. The goal here was to try to keep it  under control, and to have it simmer for about an hour and a half. Under these conditions the  cellulose fibers were being attacked by the base, and getting partially degraded.

This caused a  lot of the bonds between the fibers to be broken, which allowed them to separate and become less  densely packed. It was also chopping up the cellulose fibers into smaller pieces, and their  average length was going down a lot. This created more shorter length fibers, and this was important  because it meant that there were more open ends.

The cellulose enzyme can only degrade the fiber  from the end, and by making more potential areas of attack, it should make it go a lot faster.  In summary though the major effect of this base treatment, was that it was separating the fibers  and chopping them up. By the time it was done, the whole thing had turned yellow, and it had  a very distinct smell to it.

I honestly thought that it was going to be horrible, but it was  surprisingly pleasant. I'm not exactly sure how to describe it, but it was kind of sweet  and woody. I took it off the heater and I let it cool for about 30 minutes, and when it wasn't  crazy hot anymore, I filtered off all the paper.

What I was left with in the strainer, looked  a lot like some bad mashed potatoes. In the container below it was all the water, and  without the paper, it had a much darker orange-brown color. What I had to do now  was wash it with a lot of distilled water, to get rid of the base, and as much of the color  as possible.

I tried doing this a couple times directly in the strainer, but it just wasn't  very efficient, and most of the paper barely got washed. So what I did instead was clean the  pot from before, and dump everything back into it. In here I was able to add a lot more water, and  I was able to thoroughly mix around the paper, to make sure that it all got washed.

This was then  poured back into the strainer, and after doing it just once, it was already looking pretty good.  I ended up doing this one more time, and then I just did several crappier washes, directly in the  strainer. When I eventually felt that it was good enough, I tried squeezing out as much of the water  as I could.

At this point though the container was quite full with water already, and it was hitting  the bottom of the strainer. So I just continued doing it over the pot, and this was what I was  eventually left with. This pre-treated paper was now good to go, but I wasn't quite ready to  get things started, and I still had to make the enzyme solution.

To do this I first had to make  an enzyme concentrate, by adding 90g of the enzyme powder that I got earlier, and then bringing it  up to about 400mL using distilled water. I then stirred it around, but a lot of it didn't want  to dissolve because most of this enzyme powder, was just filler. It's pretty common for enzymes  to be dispersed on inert fillers and in this case, the fillers were cornstarch and maltodextrin. 

The cellulase enzyme itself and most of the maltodextrin dissolved into the water, but the  cornstarch was pretty much insoluble. When I was planning this project I was a bit concerned  because both cornstarch and maltodextrin, are also glucose based sugars. I was worried  that they might also end up getting broken down into glucose and turned into ethanol,  but this actually isn't an issue.

They don't get attacked by the cellulase, and the yeast and  the fermentation step that we'll be doing later, aren't able to break them down either. I even  confirmed this by doing a separate control run, but I'll talk about that later in the  video. Because these fillers were inert, I could have just directly used this mixture  as it was, but I wanted to clean it up a bit, and to get rid of the cornstarch.

Filtering  cornstarch though is almost always a nightmare, and instead I just covered the top and I let it  sit in my fridge overnight. By the next morning it had pretty much all separated, and this enzyme  concentrate was now good to go. To make the actual enzyme solution though, I had to dilute this  concentrate, in something known as a buffer solution.

A buffer solution is something that's  commonly used when working with enzymes and it helps keep the pH. at a specific level. This is  important because enzymes are very sensitive to pH, and they work most efficiently in a certain  range.

The cellulase that I had was from yeast, and the optimal pH for it was 5, so that  was what I had to make the buffer at. There were many different chemicals that can be used to  make a buffer, but a very easy and common method, is to use citric acid and sodium citrate.  Both of these are common food additives, and I was able to easily find them at a local  store.

I also found a calculator for making this buffer online, and all I had to do was plug  in the pH that I wanted, the concentration, and the total volume that I was going for. Based  on my research, a total of 3L seemed ideal, with a pH of 5 and a molarity of 0. 05.

After plugging  this in, it told me to use about 25g of the sodium citrate and 12. 2g of the citric acid. So into a  large mason jar, I added 2.

6L of distilled water, followed by the citric acid and the sodium  citrate. I stirred it around until it all dissolved, and into this I poured the enzyme  concentrate from before, which brought it up to 3L. I tried to leave as much of the cornstarch  as I could in the beaker, but some of it was still able to make it in.

Now after all this the  enzyme solution was finally ready, and all I had to do was add the toilet paper. When it was all in  there, I mixed it around as thoroughly as I could, and I loosely covered the top. I then took  this whole thing and I put it into an oven, that was set just slightly above 50°C.

This  was the optimal temperature that this cellulase worked at, and I had to leave it in there, for  two days. Over this time the enzymes should be attacking the cellulose, and slowly turning  it into glucose. When it comes to cellulase though.

it usually isn't just one enzyme doing  everything. and it's actually a group of a few different ones all working together. The first one  is endocellulase, and it breaks the bonds between the fibers, and within the fibers themselves. 

By pre-treating the paper with a base though, a lot of these bonds were already broken, and  the ones that remained, were a lot easier to access. The liberated fibers were then attacked  by the exocellulase, which degrades them from their ends. So what it does is bind to the end  and travel along the fiber, and chop off groups, of 2 or 4 glucose units.

Rhese much smaller sugar  units, are then finally broken down into glucose, by another enzyme called cellobiase. When I  checked on it the next day, the paper had all floated to the top. I then stirred it and compared  to before, it was definitely a lot thinner and fluffier.

The cellulase had clearly done something  to it, and so far it was looking a lot better than I expected. I checked on it again about half an  hour later. and it had separated where most of it stayed floating, The stuff at the top was slowly  falling down though and over the course of the day, most of it ended up at the bottom.

I left it  until the next day until it hit the 48 hour mark, and this was what I had. There was still a bunch  of stuff left over, but it didn't at all resemble, the toilet paper that I started with. It was  done at this point so I took it out of the oven, but before moving on I had to let it cool down. 

It was currently somewhere just above 50°C, but I needed it to be closer to 35. This was gonna  take about an hour though, and in the meantime, I poked around at it a bit. I was honestly  really impressed with how fine and fluffy it was, and like I said before, I really didn't expect  it to work this well.

I'm really not sure exactly how much paper was still left here, but I  feel like it was probably around 10 to 20%, of what I started with. However that's almost  just entirely speculation on my part, and not really based on much. When it eventually got to  35°C, it was time to add the yeast.

When it comes to fermenting sugar to make alcohol, there were  a lot of different yeast strains to choose from, and each of them have their own pros and cons.  However in my case I wasn't doing anything very fancy, so I just went with common brewer's  yeast, which can tolerate many conditions. These conditions though at least in terms of pH, were  actually kind of ideal.

As I mentioned earlier, the cellulase that I was using originally came  from yeast, so the pH was already tuned to be optimal for yeast. This was why I didn't want  to use a bacterial cellulase, because then I would have had to readjust the pH. The yeast  in the packet was dehydrated and right now, they were all getting rehydrated, and coming back  to life.

I then snapped on the plastic adapter that the jar came with, followed by the lid that  I had modified. I'd cut a hole in it to fit a stopper and an airlock, so that it could prevent  air from getting in, and to also help track the progress of the fermentation. Initially not much  appeared to be happening, but then very quickly a lot of yeast flakes started floating to the top. 

They were being carried by the CO2 gas that they were producing, which gave them some buoyancy.  When they got to the top though and released the CO2, they would then sink back down. This cycle  continued for a while, but it didn't last forever because the yeast were slowly being dispersed into  the water.

By the next day it was just a murky looking mixture, and there were no pieces floating  around anymore. It was also generating a lot of CO2, which was a very good sign because it told me  that the yeast were happily eating away at sugar. How much sugar was actually there though I had no  idea, but it was definitely working, at least to some degree.

I then looked at the airlock, and it  was letting a bubble out about every 30s, which was a pretty decent rate. What I had to do now was  basically nothing, and I just had to wait until it completely stopped bubbling. When this eventually  happens, it would mean that there was little to no sugar left, and I figured it would take about two  weeks.

I didn't just leave it where it was though, and I put it in the oven that I used before, and  I kept it just above 30°C. This was about a week later, and the amount of paper at the bottom,  had gone down quite a bit. This was because I had never deactivated the cellulase, and it was  still slowly attacking the cellulose.

It wasn't as efficient because it was around 30°C instead  of above 50 °C, but it was still apparently working. In terms of bubbling it was much slower  than before but it was still clearly going on, so I put it back in the oven, and I waited  another week. So I came back a week later, and when I checked on it the airlock wasn't moving  at all, and I couldn't see any bubbling going on.

At the bottom there was still some white stuff,  but it wasn't sure if this was leftover paper, or just a bunch of yeast. At this point I  considered it done, and now the next thing that I had to do was distill it, to get out the ethanol.  I didn't want to include all that questionable stuff at the bottom though, so I poured everything  into another container.

The bit that was still there was then dumped into a coffee filter. this  filtration was really slow, and it wasn't really worth waiting for it to finish. The liquid that  did eventually pass through though, would all be added back to the main batch.

But anyway with  all that done, I could start setting up the distillation. When most people distill alcohol,  they use a large and specialized setup for it, which is the most efficient thing to do. However  I just decided to do it in glassware, because my scale was relatively small and I thought that it  would look nicer.

Almost all my glassware had been used before, so to keep this food safe, I bought  a fresh set from Ebay, for about $55 Canadian. The biggest flask that came with though was only 1L,  so I'd have to distill, it in multiple batches. To get things started I added a stir bar, and then  I poured in the alcohol solution.

In general it's best not to go much over the halfway point, but  I want to get this done in the fewest batches possible, so I ended up pushing it a bit. Above  the flask I put together the rest of the setup, and to do this I used a fractional column, a  thermometer, a condenser, and a beaker. I then turned on my water circulator, and I got some cold  water flowing through the condenser.

At this point it was good to go, so under the flask I added a  heating mantle, and I turned on the heating and stirring. As it warmed up, it started bubbling  a lot but it wasn't boiling, and it was mostly just CO2 gas getting kicked out of solution.  The color also shifted to being much whiter, and I think this was caused by yeast, coming out of  suspension.

Some frothing started happening and it didn't look like it wanted to disappear, and this  was gonna be a problem. So I turned on the heating to try to prevent a disaster, but it was a bit  too late. The foam had already started climbing the column, and it wasn't really slowing down.

It  was able to make its way all the way to the top of the column, and then suddenly it started actually  boiling, and it launched a bunch of liquid through the entire setup. This was a bit of a pain, but  it wasn't the end of the world. It just meant that it was gonna take a bit longer because I now  had to recycle everything here in the next batch, and also I had to be a bit more careful with the  heating.

When it eventually looked like it was under control, I covered the flask in the column  with some aluminum foil. This helps insulate them, and it makes it easier for the vapor, to climb  the column and make it to the condenser. I also swapped a beaker, but the stuff coming over was  still pretty murky because it was picking up all the solid junk that was carried up the column  before.

This run was definitely turning out, to be way messier than I expected. I was hoping  that this stuff would be nice and clear, but that obviously wasn't the case and I was gonna have to  recycle this as well. It wasn't a total loss or anything though, because the alcohol coming over  was definitely a lot more concentrated than it started at, it just didn't look very nice.

However  it was still mostly just water, and it had other volatile stuff mixed in as well. To really clean  it up and to properly concentrate it, I'd have to do a second or maybe even a third distillation.  The reason that the stuff coming over was mostly water was because I was only starting with a very  low concentration of ethanol.

In my fermentation mixture, it was probably at most something like  2% ethanol, and that meant that it was 98% water. At the very beginning the stuff coming over was  probably close to 50 or 60% ethanol, but after that it quickly and continuously dropped. This  happened because as the ethanol was boiled off, that 2% concentration was constantly decreasing,  and the relative amount of water was constantly increasing.

This caused more and more water vapor  to be let off with the ethanol, and the stuff that I was receiving, eventually became almost entirely  water. This meant that I couldn't really trust the thermometer, because the temperature was heavily  skewed to the boiling point of water. However even though it was well above the boiling point of  ethanol, which is around 78 °C, there was still some ethanol coming over, once it was up at around  98 °C.

Usually temperature is the best thing to go by, but because I couldn't use it here, I had to  go with the more traditional way. So to know how close it was to being done, I just occasionally  tasted what was coming over, and tried to tell if there was any ethanol in it. As I said before  though, along with the water and ethanol there's other volatile stuff coming over with it, which  doesn't really make it taste very good.

It wasn't as bad as I expected it would be, but I did end up  spitting out most of what I tried. At some point I couldn't taste any more ethanol in it, and then I  continued collecting it for several more minutes. After this I considered it done, and pretty much  all of the ethanol should have been extracted.

Everything left in the boiling flask was just  waste, and after letting it cool for a bit, I poured it down the drain. This was one of the  rare times where it's okay for me to do this, because unlike a lot of the chemistry that I often  do, there was nothing toxic or dangerous in this. This was everything that I'd collected, which  was not very pretty to say the least, and like I said before, was just gonna be recycled.

So I  reattached the now empty flask, and I poured them in. I then added more of the other stuff, and I  set it all up again. This time I was super careful with the heating, and there wasn't a disaster. 

This time because it was gonna be a lot slower, I expected the ethanol coming over to be more  concentrated, and I started with just a small vial. However after a bit, I realized that I  was gonna be collecting a lot more than this, and I swapped it out for a mason jar. Then just  like the other run, I did it until a taste test told me that there wasn't any more alcohol coming  over.

And when it was done I emptied the flask, filled it with fresh stuff, and just kept it  going. It was all going really well all the way up to the last batch, and everything that I had  was nice and clear. However for some reason it of course decided to go crazy, right when it was  close to the end, and it spit over a bunch of that white junk.

This wasn't a huge deal though because  I planned to do a second distillation anyway, but it was still kind of sad. This whole distillation  process was way slower than I expected, and it took me a few days to finish. At this point though  it was finally done, so I took away the mason jar, and I dumped out all the stuff in the flask.

What  I had now was less than 10% of the volume that I started with, so it was way more concentrated  than before. As a quick test mostly just for fun, I decided to try lighting it on fire. However  it still wasn't concentrated enough to ignite, and not very much happened.

I honestly wasn't very  surprised by this though, and now to actually find out its concentration, I poured it all into a  grad cylinder. I then dropped in a hydrometer, which will float at different heights, depending  on the density of the liquid. When there's more ethanol the density will be lower, and this meter  will be able to sink deeper.

In this case though it didn't go very deep at all, and it told me  that the concentration was around 20%. This was way higher than I ever imagined getting  from this project, and 250mL of 20% alcohol, really isn't bad at all. I was hoping to maybe  get 5 or 10mL of pure alcohol, but based on this it's telling me that there's more like 50mL. 

But anyway at this point if all I was looking for was to drink some dirty toilet paper wine, I could  have stopped here. However based on the taste test that I had to do, this wouldn't be a very pleasant  experience. To make it even remotely tolerable, I had to distill it again, to get rid of all that  solid junk, and to purify it.

Besides ethanol there were a lot of other volatile, and bad  tasting things in there. When it was super dilute, it was very difficult to get rid of them, but now  with another distillation I should be able to get rid of almost all of them. This time I had a lot  less liquid, so I could do it in a smaller flask, and all in one batch.

I also completely cleaned  and scrubbed the rest of the setup, to make sure that it was as clean as possible. I then set it  up like before, but this time the heating mantle was a bit oversized. This was okay though, and it  would just make the heating, a bit less efficient.

However with most of the yeast, and most of the  other stuff gone, now there shouldn't be a problem with bubbling or foaming. At this point I was just  about to get things started, but then I realized that I totally forgot the stir bar. So I just  quickly popped it open again and dropped one in, and then I turned on the heating and stirring. 

After this I covered everything with foil, and I waited for stuff to start coming over. One  major difference between this distillation and the last one, was that there was way less water, so I  could actually pay attention to the temperature. The first drop showed up at around 70°C, and  then it slowly rose to 79 °C, where it remained constant.

This initial amount was called foreshot,  and it contained almost entirely low boiling point side products. In this section if it were  present, most of the methanol would come over, but I don't think that there was any here. This  is because methanol is only produced when certain foods are fermented, that contains sugars called  pectins.

I started with nearly pure cellulose though, so there was no real reason for any of  it to be made. As I kept collecting it at 79°C, it slowly got into the portion called the heads,  which was mostly ethanol, but it still had some other stuff in it. I kept catching it in the same  vial as the foreshot for a bit, and then I swapped it to a beaker to get the rest.

As more came over,  it slowly moved to the section called the hearts, which was almost pure ethanol. Along with the  ethanol though usually comes some other things which actually taste good, and it makes this  portion, the most valuable. I was tracking everything again by occasionally tasting  it, and at this point it was quite pure and probably around 85%.

Like before though, there  was still a lot of water in the boiling flask, and the amount of ethanol that was in it, was  constantly decreasing. So the stuff that I was collecting slowly got less concentrated, and  the temperature also slowly increased. As this happened, higher boiling point side products were  being carried over with the ethanol, and it was changing the taste.

This portion is near the end  of the distillation, and it's commonly known as the tails. However I didn't ferment anything  complex like fruit, so for this section, there weren't many side products that could come over.  To me the only thing that I noticed was that it was getting more dilute, and maybe a bit bitter. 

When making moonshine distillers usually don't collect everything in one container, and they  try to separate the different sections. Both the heads and the tails contain a lot of ethanol, but  they often have a bunch of weird stuff mixed in, so they're often just included in future runs. The  hearts like I said before are the most valuable, and they contain the best tasting portion.

Knowing  exactly when to start collecting the hearts and when to stop, is one of the most important  things when it comes to making a good quality product. I of course wasn't making a typical  moonshine though, and I felt that my ethanol was a bit too precious, to discard any of it.  This was why I just chose to collect everything, in one beaker.

Also like I said before, I was  starting with a relatively pure sugar source, so there weren't that many side products that  could be made. When it got to around 80mL, the temperature was about 99°C, and I didn't taste  ethanol anymore, so I considered it done. This was everything that was left in the boiling flask, and  like all the other runs, I waited for it to cool, and then I got rid of it.

The final result  of this was 80mL of an unknown concentration, and this little vial of the foreshot. I'm not sure  how to describe it, but the foreshot really didn't smell very good, and I just threw it away. Now for  the good part I wanted to know how concentrated it was.

Instead of just doing it with a hydrometer  though, I again tried lighting it on fire. This time it ignited really easily, and it burned with  that blue flame that's typical of ethanol. I was really happy that this worked, but it didn't  really tell me much of anything, about what the concentration actually was.

To get an accurate  number, again I just had to use a hydrometer. The volume here was really low though and my current  setup couldn't do it, so I had to buy a smaller one. However at first this one also looked like it  was still too big.

When I looked at the bottom of it much closer though, I saw that it was actually  floating. So the reading on here should be fine, and it told me that it was about 64%. This  was more or less what I was expecting to get, and I felt that 64% was decent for a moonshine,  and I didn't have to distill it again.

So at this point it was pretty much done, and I poured it all  into a little jar and I labeled it appropriately. At 64% and about 78mL this was equivalent to  50mL of pure ethanol, and like I said before it, was way more than I ever expected. I started with  100g of toilet paper and assuming that a hundred percent of that mass was turned into glucose, the  maximum yield was about 60mL.

This meant that this whole process was 83% efficient, which to me was  suspiciously good this. Got me worried that may be the maltodextrin, or the cornstarch that was added  along with the enzyme, was breaking down as well. Theoretically cellulase doesn't attack either of  these sugars, and yeast can't ferment them, but I had to make sure.

So I ran a control by repeating  the exact same process, and I just didn't include any toilet paper. When I distilled it all, I did  actually get some ethanol, and my final yield was 20mLs of 20%. This meant that there were 5mL  of pure ethanol, and this likely came from the maltodextrin, which can sometimes have a small  amount of fermentable sugar in it.

So it was contributing some ethanol, but pretty much all of  it was still from the toilet paper. If 5mL were coming from the enzyme though then my real yield  was 45mL and not 50, and my actual efficiency was about 75%. In my opinion this was still shockingly  good, and even though I did everything myself, it's still kind of hard to believe that it all  came from toilet paper.

But anyway now that I had actually made it, the only thing left to do was  to see how it tasted. While I was distilling it, I individually tasted each section but,  now that it was all combined into one, I was really curious to know what it was like.  Okay so to get started I'm just gonna smell it, and I mean there's nothing gross about it, but  also nothing really very special.

It kind of smells like vodka except, with a bit of extra. . . 

maybe not good other stuff in there. Which again as I mentioned before probably comes from either  the heads or the tails. But it's not bad overall, and uh I guess I'll just taste it now.

I  mean. . .

it's really strong because it's 64%, but doesn't taste very bad. It's a little bit  bitter, which I kind of got when I was tasting the tails when I was making. It other than  that, I don't know, I'm honestly not the best person to really review it because I don't drink  alcohol often, and I honestly don't really like the taste of alcohol.

But compared to vodkas  and other stuff I've had in the past this, wasn't that much worse. There was again that a  little bit of a bitter taste, and maybe some off taste that came from the heads, but besides that I  mean it wasn't too bad. If I were just served it, I would think that it's just generic alcohol  which I hate anyway.

I'm not gonna add that part. But anyway this about brings me to the  end of this project. When I first came up with the idea for this, it was mostly just a funny  concept, and I had no idea, that it was actually gonna work this well.

I was honestly hoping for  maybe 5mL and it's probably the first time ever, that a project has turned out this much better  than I expected. Also even though I'm really not a fan of alcohol, the flavor wasn't bad and  overall I'm still shocked at how well it all turned out. For all the alcohol that I still have  left over, I would have loved to do a giveaway, but I doubt that it would be legal.

So I'm just  gonna be keeping it as a souvenir, and maybe I'll try to use it in a future video. It took me a lot  longer than I expected to put this all together, so my video schedule is a bit weird now, but I do  plan to get another one out around mid-December. I don't want to give any details of what  its gonna be about.

but this next one is also a funny concept. that I'd been working on  for a while. It's also kind of food based too, so there'll be some more tasting going on before. 

I go though I want to quickly mention team trees, which I'm sure a lot of you guys have already  heard about at this point. For those that haven't though, it's a tree planting initiative  that was started by Mr beast and Mark Rober. It's a massive YouTube collaboration, and  every dollar that's donated will plant one tree somewhere around the world, and the goal  is to get to 20 million.

At the time of editing this they're less than 5 million away, and if you  want to help you can do this by either donating, or picking up some of their merch. And just as one  last thing, I don't mention my other social media here very often, but I am also on Twitter and  Instagram. On both of these, I often post content that never makes it to YouTube, and sometimes  I also share some high-quality stuff like this.

As usual a big thanks goes out to all  my supporters on Patreon. Everyone who supports me can see my videos at least 24  hours before I post them to YouTube. Also everyone on Patreon can directly message  me, and if you support me with $5 or more, you'll get your name at the end like you see here.