[TheForge] The hard cider is good... OT:

[peter fels & phoebe palmer]

  Wonder if the freeze distillation method fails to separate out the 
fusil oils and other nasty fractions, thus leading to ax murders?

On 10/19/2010 6:51 PM, Rob Fertner wrote:
> 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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>
> "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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