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Alot of people will buy beer like Molson Canadian or Budweiser because it's cheap and plentiful, right? We figure, what's more plentiful than the grass growing in all our front yards!
People have been making alcoholic drinks for thousands of years out of all kinds of crazy things just to stay drunk.
Think of the first guy who tried Vodka; he probably sipped it out of a half-rotten, mouldy potato. Grassohol takes that same genius' concept and makes it easy for all of us to share in the comfort of our own homes.
You have all heard or experienced Rye Whisky before. This concept doesn't stray too far from that, only instead of Rye, Grassohol uses only the finest Kentucky Bluegrass varieties to produce a rich, earthy liqueur that goes down as easy as last Sunday's yard work. So throw away your old, ratty composter and start throwing your lawn clippings into a Grassohol still today!
Google search for grassohol.
http://www.oznet.ks.../pr_apuf/Huhnke.htm
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jul 20 2005]
(?) Grass Fermentation in a Silage.
http://www.blueseal...tation_analysis.htm
[daseva, Jul 20 2005]
EcoMow Harvester
http://www.digitalt...ower-runs-on-grass/
a self-navigating, self-powered robotic lawn mower that runs on nothing more than the grass clippings it collects from your yard. [xaviergisz, Jan 30 2014]
Green dragon
http://boards.canna...nnabis-alcohol.html
'Baked' in a different sense in accordance with urban slang, as I am sure you know. [bhumphrys, Jan 31 2014]
Sugar cane byproduct femented
http://onlinelibrar....260440213/abstract
When sugar cane is fermented, the left over grass part, bagasse, can be turned to sugar and then to alcohol. Bagasse is almost the same as lawn clippings. [popbottle, Feb 03 2014]
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I heard somewhere that grass produces a toxin when you cut it, but maybe it was just propaganda. |
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I don't think grass has enough usable sugars in it to ferment. |
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If the purpose of making the grassohol is to power the lawn mower, I heartily endorse the plan. |
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I see no reason why this shouldn't work, after all you can ferment wood. I only wonder that no one has done it yet. |
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/You can ferment wood/ you can even ferment lichens if you're desperate. Sweden was forced to do this when normal sources of vodka ceased to function. |
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Zubrowka vodka is flavored with Buffalo Grass. |
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Shown here, grass fermentation can yield almost 1% alcohol. (linky) |
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I was going to say it might not taste good, but then I
got to thinking, what hard liquor DOES taste good? |
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Just don't have a picture of a dog on the label. |
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Grass is primarily celulose. In addition to the 1%
ethanol, you've probably got some methanol, and
various other toxins. All at low doses, so it wouldn't
hurt cows to eat it, but you'd better be extremely
careful with your distallation if you expect a
concentrated version to be at all potable. |
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[Ebenezer] created an account two days before creating this idea, and then was never heard from again. |
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//... never heard from again.// |
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Tragic gardening accident? |
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Same issues as with any cellulosic ethanol. Cellulase must be tricky stuff. |
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I wonder what % of the cellulose ingested by ruminants is converted into biologically available sugars? |
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What is really surprising is that cellulases are not far
more common, especially in higher animals. |
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Those early humans whose metabolisms yielded cellulase used to eat their own huts during hard winters, and then died of hypothermia. That's my theory, anyway, and I'm sticking to it. |
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