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Bookmark or Share- Methanol In Applejack | Homebrew Talk - Beer, Wine, Mead, & Cider ...First, If you're doing heat distillation, you're producing brandy, not applejack - applejack is freeze distilled. As you stated, heat distillation will allow you to cut the heads which is almost exclusively methanol; in freeze distillation, the methanol remains diluted within the entirety of the beverage.
- Applejack (fractional freezing) - Homebrew TalkNot sure why applejack would be anymore taboo than eisbock. The only difference is one starts as cider and one starts as beer after that its literally the same process. Posting about fractional freezing on a distillation forum usually results in an elitist attitude and most telling you to just do it the way we aren't allowed to discuss here.
- Abv math on applejack - Homebrew TalkI used 5 bottles (3 quarts ea)apple juice,3 12 oz..concentrate and 8 lbs of dark brown sugar...yeast starter, yeast...racked primary 4 weeks, secondary 1,double fined then filtered through activate charcoal filter..bottled 1 gallon 15% and froze the rest.
- Methanol in Apple Jack - Homebrew TalkIt's not a concern in the least with making Applejack. The whole TTB thing with home distillation is a fallacy, it's more of an excuse for excise taxes than it is a public safety concern. Even in distilleries, they aren't dropping the heads and tails because of methanol, it's due to fusel oils that you don't want in your dram.
- AppleJack - Help me calculate alcohol and residual sugarI just finished making my first batch of AppleJack (freeze concentrated Hard Apple Cider). It turned out really nice. Highly concentrated apple flavors and aromas, and quite the alcohol kick as well. I am trying to calculate my final alcohol and residual sugar percentages. First step is to...
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