During this week I got to know this quite odd brewery at my university - the picture above. It has lot of weird quirks because it is just ~150l setup with same technology as 1000l+ setup. It sometimes doesn’t make much sense but you can brew pretty much anything in it.

Yeah I will probably be down there quite a lot during my studies ;-)

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@ascentale @homebrewing my cider usually don’t have time to age - I drink it too quickly. Maybe it will get better with age I am usually quite surprised when I find some forgotten 1+ year bottle.

@finitebanjo there is bunch of misconception about methanol. If I remember correctly it is created by partial fermentation of cellulose, so pits and seeds left in fermenter in making of fruit distillates. But the yeast just likes sugars more so it is just really small quantity and you just discard the “head” part (that is distilled first) and take only the part with mostly ethanol.

Lighter alcohol is basically made from sugar water, no cellulose is there so no methanol is created.

Also methanol poisoning is bit weird - methanol is harmless in the body but metabolites are dangerous. Basically ethanol is broken down to acetaldehyde that is useful for other metabolic processes, but methanol is broken down to formaldehyde that is dangerous and for some reason likes to damage optical nerves.

Fortunately enzyme that breaks down ethanol don’t like methanol that much, so when you drink some small amount of methanol mixed with ethanol you pee out the methanol and process the ethanol. Antidote for methanol is literally keeping you drunk until you pee out all the methanol.

I hope this info will at least clear out some of the misconceptions that you got.

@finitebanjo methanol is dangerous only in high concentration, so distillates. This will be just OK. Beer, wine, mead, cider… just doesn’t have the problem there.

Also with distillation it is bad technology or somebody is just an idiot who doesn’t know what fractional distillation is.

@finitebanjo yes it is stainless steel.

But it’s not fermenter so only starch and sugars (and bunch of other compounds like enzymes but it’s not that important for your worries) are present at this stage.

As for methanol it is made by fermentation of more complex compounds that just aren’t in beer. Even in commercial brewing context stainless is heavily used for nearly everything, at 5% ABV it just isn’t issue.

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to snad NEE!

Pivní pálenka je fakt nic moc. Myslím že jsme to udělali jen jednou když se něco fakt hodně nepovedlo a pak jsme to používali na mytí oken.

@MuteDog sweet ones, that’s just what I have. I was asking more about the usage - where to put it in the process in fermenter, to the boil (as I found someone do it with concentrate)

@AndiPopp @homebrewing I know, few months ago I was in Belgium and visited brewery that makes lambics.

Tbh I really don’t like this style I was thinking about some dubbel or some different strong style.