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

[Jerry Frost]

Give it a try Pete, we'll ask Phe if it's true.
Jer
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>  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
>>
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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
>>>
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>>> 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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