" #US appeals court declares 158-year-old home #distilling ban unconstitutional"

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-appeals-court-declares-158-year-old-home-distilling-ban-unconstitutional-2026-04-10/

If you're excited about this: please be careful. Amateurs can give themselves methanol poisoning. If you're going to do this, educate yourself

I'll also make a wider hopeful political observation:

This is a country that once made #alcohol illegal. It was stupid. This is the final nail in the coffin

Meaning:

Stop believing the #USA's ills are eternal

Some changes just take time

@benroyce they didn't just declare alcohol illegal...

they made it unconstitutional. that's something to remember, amendments can be amended

[EDIT to change pronoun to noun in 1st sentence clause]

@draNgNon @benroyce
not merely the ethanol and methanol trouble with the chemistry, but the other problem in the old days was the problem of poorly constructed and inexpertly operated stills having a tendency to explode into flames.

@benroyce I learned how to make moonshine and other distilled spirits from my grandfather at a very young age tending to his still. He operated stills from the late prohibition years until he was around 75 years old. Both me and my brother operated stills well until the early 2010s until both of our health declined.

But yeah, the first out of the drip arm/spout, for moonshine, is deadly or at least can really mess your brain up. ;)

I should have several posts about it, but here is one:

https://oldfriends.live/@paul/116146036044877403

@benroyce Just a note from New Zealand, where home distilling has been legal for a long time, that while home brewed beer can be good, home distilled spirits are at best not bad.
@benroyce I think getting rid of the ban ought be the first step. Nothing that says you shouldn't still need a license and training to make a controlled substance.