Any of you gents / lady gents home brew? Whether it's a soda, beer, wine, mead, whatever? I need a winter hobby and I'm considering a bit of brewing.
Did you get that idea from the Cobra thread? Dire material in there.
Honestly, making booze is always portrayed as this complicated process, but straight up you need a big container, you need some wine yeast (or appropriate yeast), and you need a bunch of fruit/sugar.
If you put all those things together into a container alcohol will happen. The rest is up to your level of desired obsessiveness.
I completely half ass the process, don't even use air locks just little pinholes in the lid, and the only time it ever turned out poorly was one time when I wasn't doing a good job cleaning the containers between batches and wound up getting the bacteria in there that converts ethanol to vinegar, which is obviously a little gross.
Grind up the sudafed, run it through a coffee filter in acetone or methanol or something, then dry it and solvent wash it in toluene or diethyl ether. One's a hydrophilic solvent and one's hydrophobic, I forget which is which, I'm not a chemist. Either way you want to fraction out the middle layer on the toluene wash. You're supposed to do this bit like 10+ times to get your fed all sparkling and clean but fuck who cares that I do it maybe twice. Once you've dried your ephedrine, put it in a saucepan over an ice bath and make up a mixture of about 3/3/1 of fed, iodine crystals and red phosphorous and add about 50ml distilled water per gram of mixture. You need clean iodine and RP and how you clean those depends where you're getting it from so I won't get into all that because cleaning that shit up is basically whole ass entire runs on their own especially if you're doing nigger shit like cooking out iodine-povidone washes or whatever. Anyways, you want to let that react over ice, and slowly, slowly raise the temperature, first to room temp and then start boiling it over an oil bath. Use a thermometer, you want to raise the temperature, let it sit for about an hour, then cool it down and go for a higher temperature. You should have good ventilation for this bit because the fumes that come off it are pretty bad, they're not like phosphine gas or anything I don't think but they're still pretty bad and I think they'll chemical burn your lungs and eyes and also they smell. End result is you want to have cooked that shit at over 200F for at least an hour, but you want to build up to this real slowly because the reaction is endothermic and it'll give off a lot of messed up gasses and maybe catch fire or explode if you're too fast. I take my time and go like 24-30 hours on this because being exploded isn't fun. Now cool it right down to ice bath temps and drop some sodium hydroxide in, I'm not sure how much you're supposed to use but just like a bottle capful or whatever seems to work. This part is also really endothermic so be ready with the fire extinguisher and like, lean your head away when you drop it in. If you can't get pure sodium hydroxide just use whatever you have. Sodium peroxide might work, I don't know. Once it stops spazzing out and frothing, acetone fraction it (yellow layer) and in a separate container put some table salt and add sulphuric acid to it (battery acid solution works fine). You want to collect up the gas that reaction lets off and bubble it through the oily yellow meth liquid. Taping a funnel and rubber hose to the top of a jar works fine for this. Bubble it through real thoroughly, get that gas all through your base and then just add more sodium hydroxide till you get the Ph up above like five or so. Then just put the liquid out in a baking dish and wait for it to crystalise and you're all done.
Nobody does that method anymore you absolute aus-nigger, especially not outside of big batches.
On a personal basis addicts all do shake and bake, in that case there's no drying or processing the pseudoephedrine, nothing, it's just a reduction using lye, ammonia nitrate, and lithium, which produces supercritical anhydrous ammonia under pressure and peels electrons off of the lithium, which reduces the pseudoephedrine to methamphetamine.
I think that's called a benckeser reduction, or that might be done specifically with sodium since that reduction process works for all alkali metals that have a single electron hanging off on their valence shell and is pretty common in organic chemistry.
It's this shit basically, but with tweakers in plastic bottles who start themselves on fire (since it involves lithium, which just like elemental sodium and potassium loves to start on fire in the presence of water, floating in a big pool of what amounts to lighter fluid)
We're talking about home brewing, no home meth cooks do red white and blue anymore. Don't be silly.
