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?
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...