The Growing Illicit Alcohol Problem

Dear Client: The methanol poisoning deaths in Costa Rica, as well as deaths in India and Mexico where it is estimated that half of all liquor is illicit, have dominated the news lately. Deadly methanol is just one molecule away from lovely ethanol, but they taste similar. Even if you're trying to make ethanol, you can make and bottle methanol by mistake, often causing blindness and death. We in the United States don't have such a problem thanks largely to