Reply to user usrnme14. Not legal advice. But these are my reasons for why I think distilling strictly for #chemistry is no problem in Canada.

Two months ago, I received a misprint of my second degree and a corrected version from my alma mater, McMaster University. That put me in possession of three fancy pieces of paper for a short time. I sent the faulty one back soon afterwards and thought that was the end of it... until the day a familiar looking package arrived at my door.

Today, I make apple cider and apple cider vinegar from scratch. Although this is for my journey towards aspirin, this is also a great standalone recipe if you just want to make cider or vinegar :) Support the project on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/avianyuen These two ingredients will be required, specifically, in my method of preparing sulfuric acid and acetic anhydride. There also seems to be a lot of interest online for using apple cider vinegar medicinally, though not as an ingredient towards aspirin. I'm not sure what mechanism people are thinking of for how it promotes weight loss. Regardless, this presents a great opportunity to show how to make something a bit more useful for everyday folks, and there are some good lessons on chemical engineering instrumentation and measurement theory along the way! Contents: 0:00 Intro to apple cider and vinegar 0:28 Tip: Pick a variety of apples 1:00 Apple cider and vinegar recipe 1:46 Cutting apples knife technique 2:02 Cyanide in apple seeds: not dangerous 2:27 Yield and cost of apple cider 3:09 Apple cider taste test 4:06 Vinegar fermentation reactions 4:24 Modern vinegar production best resources 5:18 Orleans process for vinegar 6:28 Advice: Skim off the juice foam 7:04 Daily tasks and observations 9:00 Apple cider vinegar taste test 10:07 Filtering and storage 10:12 Apple cider vinegar and weight loss? 10:30 Vinegar pH measurement intro 10:42 How to use a glass pH probe 12:00 White and apple vinegar pH results 13:13 Apple cider vinegar taste comparison 19:52 Conclusion and process graph GitHub project for OpenAspirin: https://github.com/avianyuen/openaspirin Backups of all videos on Odysee: https://odysee.com/@avianyuen:d TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@avianyuen References: [1] "...Emery’s Encyclopedia of Country Living..." Emery, C. (2019), "The Encyclopedia of Country Living, 50th Anniversary Edition: The Original Manual for Living off the Land & Doing It Yourself", Sasquatch Books. [2], [3] "...cyanide from the seeds, measurements report..." CDC & NIOSH (1994), "CDC - Immediately Dangerous to Life or Health Concentrations (IDLH) Hydrogen cyanide", Accessed July 6, 2021, URL: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/idlh/74908.html Islamiyat F. Bolarinwa, Caroline Orfila, Michael R.A. Morgan (2014), Amygdalin content of seeds, kernels and food products commercially-available in the UK, Food Chemistry, Volume 152, 2014, Pages 133-139, ISSN 0308-8146, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2013.11.002. [4] "...Frings reactor...30-40 day cycle.", "...If you want more details on modern vinegar production, the must-read resources in my opinion..." Emde, F. (2014). Vinegar. In Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, (Ed.). https://doi.org/10.1002/14356007.a27_403.pub2 [5] Lea, A. G. (1989). Cider vinegar. In Processed apple products (pp. 279-301). Springer, New York, NY. Further resources: Science Channel video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=milbLnhFQbE Farmer Dre video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_mWjF6qrec

Update June 12, 2021 on the aspirin project.