Making toilet paper moonshine

2019-11-15

[public] 6.77M views, 299K likes, 3.42K dislikes audio only

**Major correction: I wrongly and repeatedly referred to T. Reesei as being a yeast, when it is actually another type of fungus. Yeast is also a type of fungus, so my comments about reaction conditions remain true, but it is incorrect to call T. Reesei a yeast. Or to say that the cellulase came from yeast.

*Small correction: I also said that 20ml of 20% , when it was supposed to be 25ml.

For this video, I'm going to be doing exactly what the title says, and I'll be turning a roll of toilet paper into moonshine. This was something that I've been wanting to do for a while and I am really surprised how well it turned out!

Paper references:

• The Effect of Pretreatment Methods on Cellulose Structure: https://bit.ly/2CJbyl0

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