Recent content by sharkriver

I am planning to settle this issue once and for all (in my own mind). Ive got some cider brewing ( without pectin enzyme). Going to make a good strong apple jack. Once complete i Will put one batch under a strong vacuum and boil off some methanol (i hope) I will then do a scientific (wink wink)...

Thanks guys

Inexperienced brewer here. Understood that the cider needed plenty of oxygen to get started. I go out my oxy acetylene torch, and blew straight oxygen into my cider with a raking tube. I let it bubble 5 to 10 min. then added yeast. Was I bad?

Well thanks for all the good information. Looks like a waste of time. As for legal or not, not real worried about it. Privacy of the home and all that.

I guess I didn't explain what I was doing. I made my first batch of applejack and I am trying to figure out a way to remove methanol from hard cider, applejack or home brewed wine. A guy at work told me about vacuum degassing of co2 with a real vacuum pump. He said that bubbles start out small...

Thanks for the heads up neo. Trying to get rid of alcohol (methanol) not collect it. I think that if I could keep a steady vacuum and monitor temperature with an immersed thermocouple, I could tell when the methanol was gone because the temperature would be constant and then change once the...

I guess what I mean to say that if the boiling points are different at atmospheric pressure they will be different at a vacuum regardless of the temperature or pressure that they are both under.?

inexperienced brewer here. The thought came to me that if methanol boils at a lower temperature than ethanol at atmosperic pressure than the same must be true under a vacuum. While degassing with a vacuum pump after th co2 is gone, would not the methanol boil off before you started to lose...

inexperienced brewer here. The thought came to me that if methanol boils at a lower temperature than ethanol at atmosperic pressure than the same must be true under a vacuum. While degassing with a vacuum pump after the co2 is gone, would not the methanol boil off before you started to lose...