Tastes good!
Anyone know how to test the ABV???
Applejack
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Re: Applejack
You're going to be grateful that was a long slow and clean fermentation with little bad alcohols.....
I'd guess at concentration ratio x original ABV less 15%
I'd guess at concentration ratio x original ABV less 15%
Re: Applejack
You can test the ABV with a spirit hydrometer.
Alternatively, you can calculate it, by knowing how much water you've removed.
Alternatively, you can calculate it, by knowing how much water you've removed.
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Re: Applejack
It may also be ever so slightly in technical breach of HMRC law. I doubt HMRC would ever find out about it unless you were to mention it on and interwebs forum or something...
Re: Applejack
Knew I could rely on you Trunkster.Trunky wrote:You're going to be grateful that was a long slow and clean fermentation with little bad alcohols.....
Freeze distilling seems a fairly inexact science. Not everything I removed was water, in fact as the main body became more concentrated, the melt was more and more like weak cider. Drank that too!alikocho wrote:Alternatively, you can calculate it, by knowing how much water you've removed.
Really?! How can this be so? All I'm doing is drinking different bits of the one cider at different times/strengths....Trunky wrote:It may also be ever so slightly in technical breach of HMRC law. I doubt HMRC would ever find out about it unless you were to mention it on and interwebs forum or something...
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Re: Applejack
Do you have one BTW? And would I need to have taken a reading prior to commencement to know what it is telling me?alikocho wrote:You can test the ABV with a spirit hydrometer.
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Re: Applejack
No, and no.Capn Ahab wrote:Do you have one BTW? And would I need to have taken a reading prior to commencement to know what it is telling me?alikocho wrote:You can test the ABV with a spirit hydrometer.
As to the inexactness....It won't just be water that you remove, but as the alcohol won't freeze you won't take any of that out. You can then calculate the Alcohol by volume (ABV) based on where it started out.
And as to the hypothetical questions as to what if someone to do this - under the HMRC rules it would be unlicensed distilling.
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Re: Applejack
They'll never take him alive...
I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.