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Has anyone used a 5gallon water bottle as a secondary fermenter? They are the ones that have a slighty blue and has a handle on the side. I was thinking maybe I can use this since we have a lot at home. This will save me 24 or so bucks by not buying the carboy. Any downsides to it? besides...

Well, the problem is my Dad and his friends drink a whole lot. They will run through my beer like water so more volume is better in this situation. Also, if they are drinking strong beer, it probably isn't the best for their health.

Most people tend to say it like dextrin gives most or all of the body feel, which he does not feel is true. More of the some of all the molecules of stuff. Sure the dextrin gets fermented and there's less of it but he believes that the dilution lowers the body feel. Say a beer has 10% molecules...

The bottles do look cool but they are blue. I don't know how well they protect your beer from UV lights. The uv light could break down resins from the hops to give that skunky smell like Heineken and this would suck if you reused the bottles for your own brew.

Lol I didn't notice it was a WC3 reference.

My teacher said that the notion that dextrin gives the "body feel" is "baloney". He said the body feel of the beer is the total of all the ingredients in the beer. By adding water, the total amount of ingredients is less. Other companies do high specific gravity brewing which ups all the...

This thread may be old but I learned in school how bud makes bud light and wanted to share some details. So what bud does is they ferment the beer but they also ferment dextrin. I forgot exactly how but I think they add in some sort of enzyme. Since alcohol has more calories than carbs...