Questions tagged [alcohol]
An alcohol is any organic compound in which the hydroxyl functional group (–OH) is bound to a saturated carbon atom. Alcohol originally referred to ethanol, the predominant alcohol in alcoholic beverages. Ethanol is the main alcohol produced by yeast, but methanol, propanols and butanols can also be produced in very small quantities, which is why we have to be careful when distilling as we can easily concentrate these flavorful alcohols to toxic levels.
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My mead has a lower ABV than I hoped
I'm brewing a solera mead experiment at home. It's on a six month rotation, so every six months I make a new batch, let that sit for a month, and them go down the line bottling the oldest and ...
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Guess Alcohol By Weight With ACTUAL Weight
This has been bothering me for years. I'm sure it can be done but every time I do a search it's always original gravity this and final gravity that. All I want to do is have a rough estimate of how ...
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Is this Campden safe to use?
Campden was really hard to find in the country I am currently in. Thus a friend arranged it from a lab supplier.
As it shows 10ppm max lead on the label, would it be toxic to use?
Also could you ...
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Why do we use 95% alcohol in Liqueurs?
Not exactly a beer homebrew question but...
I heard from many people that drinking 70-96% alcohol (not rubbing alcohol but distilling grapes).
For example Cyprus traditional drink zivania is made by ...
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How to calculate liqueur alcohol percentage and final volume
I'm planning to make an homemade liqueur, like Limoncello, but with oranges.
To begin, I've added orange zests to 500 grams of 96% alcohol.
Now, I'm puzzled about the sugar syrup.
In the beginning I ...
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Should I be worried
I made sugar wash and let it ferment for a week. After that I distilled it but forgot to get rid of the heads. I let it go until it was enough to fill a cup and emptied my pot (I didn’t use all my ...
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How to make an optimal fermentation for ginger beer with ginger bug
I'm trying my first batch of ginger beer and decided to make it with ginger bug.
What I want to achieve is a bit sweet ginger beer with max alcohol my ginger bug can handle, I read somwhere it is 4-5%...
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How can I raise alcohol content in my rum?
I have been letting it sit for 10 days and it is still not 40%. I would like to know how to raise alcohol content in my rum while it is still in the process of fermentation. There are bubbles rising ...
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How to brew moonshine? [duplicate]
I need to know the equipment and the step by step process, cause i already try do it, but it didn't work
I already watch several videos, but its not the same to talk to someone that really loves , ...
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How to brew moonshine?
I would like to know the equipment and the step by step process, as I have already tried to do it, but it didn't work.
I have already watched several videos, but it is not the same to talk to someone ...
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Sensor for measuring alcohol content of wine
I would like to know if there is a sensor that can monitor its alcohol content and displaying it to my LCD display.
Your answers would be a great help to my dreams. I'm a computer engineer taking my ...
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Measuring alcohol content
How do you measure alcohol content in a fermented drink without relying on measurements of gravity?
Say we have a bottle of water (pasteurized), add sugar (that has been treated to have no living ...
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What is the best plastic to use to store alcohol?
What is the best grade of plastic for brewing and storing alcohol (up to about 15%)?
Basically as the title suggests, I’m in a rural part of Tanzania with no access to glass but I do have access to ...
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Beer, alcohol - body ratio
I don't know if this is relevant for the SO homebrewing forum, but anyway..
A friend and I had a discussing over a beer the other night at a bar in Oslo.
I bought a 2 dl(0.2L) with an incredible ...
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Gently stir fermenter before bottling?
When you drink a spirit and mixer with a straw sometimes you get a kick of alcohol at the end, so you keep stirring it with the straw while drinking it.
Will the different components of a brew (e.g. ...
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