[TheForge] The hard cider is good...

[Rob Fertner]

I decided to look and see if I still had the book. I do have it. It's
"Grandfather's Book of Country Things" by Walter Needham and Barrows Mussey.
Copyright 1965.
I doesn't have the Applejack stuff(must have been another book) but it did
talk about hard cider:

"October and November was always cider time around here, but for some reason
Gramp never cared much for cider. Vermont had a temperance law when I was a
boy, mostly on account of cider. Hard cider makes people awful mean when
they're drunk, and these choppers used to go out in the woods with a jug of
hard cider in the late fall. They'd get to quarrelling, and cut each other
up with their axes. For a long time after they passed the Vermont
prohibition law, there was a big decline in axe murders."

Andy, how strong is your hard cider? Do you keep axes close by? Just
wondering...

Rob

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Andrew Vida
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 8:19 PM
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] The hard cider is good...

"Authorities" need to mind their own business. :)

Rob Fertner wrote:
> To make applejack out of the hard cider you freeze it. The alcohol part
> doesn't freeze and the water part becomes an icy slush. You filter the
slush
> out and you end up with a high alcohol content Applejack. Kind of freeze
> distillation.
> I read this years ago in a book about the old days in Vermont. The author
> made a comment that when the authorities cracked down on the production of
> Applejack, the rate of axe murders went down. :-)
> 
> Rob
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Andrew Vida
> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 6:41 PM
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> Subject: [TheForge] The hard cider is good...
> 
> Well, I guess I am a cheap date because I just drank 2 shots of our hard 
> cider and I am at least mildly in the bag.  Never made it before so 
> wasn't sure what it should taste like.  Once the yeast settles out, it 
> tastes like an apple wine... sorta.  Anyhow, the question is what to do 
> with 15 gallons of it.  And I've got apples for perhaps another 30 
> gallons worth.  What about building a still?
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