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

[peter fels & phoebe palmer]

On 10/20/2010 11:11 AM, Jerry Frost wrote:
> Give it a try Pete, we'll ask Phe if it's true.
> Jer
And if you get no answer, you'll have the answer.
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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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>>> 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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>>>> [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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