Freeze distilled peach wine?

[Chuck Rairdan]

Anyone here ever tried freeze distilling peach wine similar to making applejack? Seems with some aging and back sweetening could be pretty good.

 

[pillswoj]

Probably be easier to step feed and fortify for a port style dessert wine - plenty of threads around on it. If using E1118 yeast you should be able to get it to 18% before the yeast gives up.

 

[sour_grapes]

Sorry, but we do not discuss distillation on this forum. At all.

(And, before you ask: Yes, "freeze-distillation" is considered "distillation" by the revenooers.)

 

[ThreeSheetsToTheWind]

Boo revenooers!!! Hissss!!!

 

[Chuck Rairdan]

Would like to hear from a moderator on that, perfectly legal in some parts of the country because, technically, it's not actually distilling but freeze fractioning. Btw, revenooers are just enforcers of the biggest racket of them all imo, sorry for those who still have to look out for them, especially for home distilling.

 

[Chuck Rairdan]

Sorry, not meaning to be argumentative on definitions, will just go the port approach with the high ABV yeast, close enough.

 

[sour_grapes]

I am deleting my gratuitous and unhelpful comment. I apologize, @Chuck Rairdan

 

[Julie]

Sorry, sour_grapes is correct, we will not discuss distillation on the forum.

 

[Chuck Rairdan]

I am deleting my gratuitous and unhelpful comment. I apologize, @Chuck Rairdan

It's all good, sour_grapes

 

[Chuck Rairdan]

Sorry, sour_grapes is correct, we will not discuss distillation on the forum.

Understood and makes sense, thanks for the clarification

 

[Julie]

I should have been a little more clearer. Distilling is not legal in all states, where the server for this forum is housed, distilling is illegal so we do not discuss such methods.

 

[Scooter68]

Federal law takes precedence and overrides any state law that does not agree with it. So to "Distill" you must have a -The Federal Distilled Spirits Permit.

So unless you have one it is illegal under FEDERAL law to distill spirits

THEN you must also abide by any applicable state licensing/permit requirement.


This comes from a site called Whiskey Still Pro.

 

[Chuck Rairdan]

Got it, good to know before I had gone down that road. Thanks

 

[Chuck Rairdan]

The ice wine sounds good for us in the southern lats