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Turning an upright freezer into a keezer and when trying to drill out the holes for the faucets. The problem I'm getting at now is killing hole saws; I've worn down more material off of the hole saw than off of the freezer door. not sure what material the saw was, just an older one laying...

I'm looking for a list of the amount of pectin in fruits, especially interested in which fruits are lowest in pectin. On a similar note, I know that less pectin will produce less methanol in a wine, but does anyone know a way to test for methanol content (aside from distilling)? Alternately...

Not exactly homebrew related, but I figured someone here might know something about this; I was wondering where methanol comes from and why distillers would be worried when we aren't. In distillation the "heads and tails" are tossed out to avoid methanol, which is created by the fermentation...

I've been told both, that PETE/PET plastic is fine for brewing, and that 5 gallon water jugs will allow oxygen to slowly leak in. I've got in my possession a 5 gallon water jug marked "For Water Only" with the number 1 recycling symbol (PETE/PET) marked on the bottom. Anyone know if this should...

Is there any downside to this? I've heard it might cause create sulfur production and from others that it will dry out the beer too much. I would have to think that wines ferment to dryness because of the simplicity of the sugars, not the yeast, but i'm not sure about sulfur and wine yeast. Any...

Hard to find any info that doesn't just say use lactose. I'm interested in using real milk for a milk stout. Anyone done this before? any suggestions?

Someone who recently came back from California mentioned having a wine over there that was fermented with a Belgian ale yeast and that it was like nothing he had ever had before. Didn't say if it was good or bad, just.. different. Anyways, got me thinkin, and maybe some brettomyces or...

I've got some Imperial Porter that I'd like to last longer than it'll last in my kegerator. Should I prime the part that I'm bottling with priming sugar or is there a good long term storage option for bottling from the keg? I'm familiar with counter pressure fillers and the beer gun, but was...

I've got a barleywine that I figured would be cloudy from the start, but want to get fixed up if possible. When mashing, the false bottom got disconnected some how and I had to empty my mash tun and refit the false bottom right before sparging. I did a 120 minute boil to try to help, hit it with...

Long time brewer but first time posting, most of my questions I can already find answered here. I use pellets for bittering and plugs or whole hops for late additions and dry hopping, but am always left guessing about how much wort I should anticipate loosing from them. Does anyone know roughly...