How to Purify Cheap Liquor

The impurities in cheap liquor can make you ill.

Cheap hard liquors can be easy on the wallet but extremely harsh on your body. Impurities that arise during the distillation process are filtered out of more expensive liquors. These impurities are not filtered out of cheap liquors, by contrast, which leaves your body to deal with them. Here's a simple way to make cheap liquor easier on your system.

Things You'll Need

• Water filter with pitcher

Instructions

1. Open your bottle of hard liquor.

2. 

   Open your water filter with the pitcher. Brita, for example, offers an effective filter for this process.

3. Pour the hard liquor into the water filter to begin the filtering process.

4. Close the water filter and place the filter in the refrigerator until the filtering process is done. When filtering is complete, you are ready to use your hard liquor.

Tips & Warnings

• If you use a water filter that you normally use for water, remember that you will have liquor residue in your filter when you are done with this project. Wash out your filter thoroughly to ensure that no liquor residue enters your drinking water.

• Consider buying a water filter to use solely for filtering hard liquor to avoid contaminating your drinking water.

• A water filter will not filter out all the impurities from your hard liquor. Take caution when drinking liquor filtered in this way.

• Read the Surgeon General's warning on the hard liquor bottle to determine if you should be consuming liquor and a safe amount to consume.

• Do not consume alcohol and then try to operate heavy machinery, including cars.

• For alcohol-related emergencies, call 911.

Resources

• Read this Article in Spanish
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