/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>56864
>>57755
brewtroller.com
brewtree.com

This is now (more) /diy/ related and you can safely remove the stick from your hindquarters.

Also, crosslinking current thread on /ck/:
>>>/ck/3218071

>>58251
Most every homebrew fermentation will produce methanol to some degree but in extremely minute amounts. That is to say you'd you'd drink yourself to death via ethanol poisoning before ever succumbing to methanol poisoning. Some fermentable materials produce more unwanted byproducts than others. Fruit is especially guilty of this. When yeast eat the pectin from fruit they produce a lot more methanol and the other above-mentioned fusel alcohols. Again, not so much of an amount to cause serious damage but now you're taking steps into hangover-land.

Fractional Freezing, which I believe falls under the category of "Fortification" and thus is illegal in the states, can at its simplest be described as the freezing and removal of water from the brew. In doing so you concentrate *everything* else in the brew that does not freeze and become readily removable. This means concentrating both the wanted and unwanted forms of alcohol which is where the danger becomes more apparent.