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Making a porter. Decided to go with White Labs Pacific Ale yeast and am considering fruiting it up. Trying to decide between raspberries or pomegranate. They have similar flavors, I think the finish will be a bit different. What are your thoughts?

Making a Porter but I'm debating using either white labs English ale or white labs pacific ale. Thoughts?

You should add it at the beginning of the fermentation, after the boil, maybe at the same time you pitch the yeast. You can wait until fermentation has halted, say in a secondary, but at that point you will need as much as double to get rid of the haze.

Just switched my Barolo to the secondary (with a lot of technical issues, but that's another story). I aerated well, maybe too well. I had a lot of bubbles created from the transfer, enough to overflow from the top of my carboy. When I placed my FL on, which is filled with vodka, a bit of the...

I'm sorry but you've obviously never brewed beer. Beer is far more likely to spoil due to contamination than wine. Doing the methods you described would be tantamount to killing your batch. All of the literature says that keeping the entire batch sterile for as long as possible will create a...

I'm sorry, how can you argue that airlocks have no place in beer brewing? The process of fermentation and vessels in which that happens are the same. Why wouldn't the process for sealing be the same? I use my bubblers and airlocks for both beer and wine.