48 Hour turbo and sugar distillation comes out blue, smells like death, (not alcohol, ether someone thought.)

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨bedwyr@piefed.ca⁩ to ⁨homebrewing@sopuli.xyz⁩

It was just a bucket with water and sugar, both white and brown, 4 and 4 pounds of each in about 4 gallons of water, and the stovetop distiller came out blue, it even seemed to be more blue the next day. I retched up the bit I drank before I realized how bad it was.

Anyone experience this before? Is there a reason this 48 hour turbo yeast, sugar, and water, in a bucket, could come out blue?

Thanks for any help, brewing supply has no answers, the internet search engines are giving me nothing on point.

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GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip ⁨51⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
link doesn’t work. is that a placeholder? If so you don’t need one to post on lemmy.

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- bedwyr@piefed.ca ⁨29⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  Oh huh thanks, yeah placeholder, both times I’ve posted on lemmy it made me use a url, idk what is going on, but it errors until I put something in there.
  
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Uranium_Green@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
What colour is the bucket? Has it changed at all since the begining?

Does the distillation setup include any copper component?

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- bedwyr@piefed.ca ⁨48⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  The bucket is white, the wort was dark, like blackish, which it normally is like a golden colour. There is a copper coil from the top of the pot through a little water container on top where a silicone tube hooks onto it to carry to mason jars in my case.
  
  But I used the still just a few days prior on a 24 hour turbo just a few days prior, and it wasn’t then or ever before blue, and the smell of this stuff is just off, it’s volatile, I don’t think it’s ethanol. It can’t be ether I don’t think that requires acid being added and other specific thins.
  
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