How do you make a fruit brandy

olusteebus · Jun 4, 2012

I have seen various ways to make brandy., distill wine or beer, soak fruit in water, sugar and yeast for a couple of months and soak fruit in vodka.

What do you guys do to make a brandy.

I tasted some Hiram Walker Apricot and some blackberry brandy. I liked the apricot better.

What do you thing the best fruit is for brandy?

Thanks

g8keeper · Jun 4, 2012

olusteebus said:
I have seen various ways to make brandy., distill wine or beer, soak fruit in water, sugar and yeast for a couple of months and soak fruit in vodka.

What do you guys do to make a brandy.

I tasted some Hiram Walker Apricot and some blackberry brandy. I liked the apricot better.

What do you thing the best fruit is for brandy?

Thanks

well actually, some of the process that truly makes a brandy, well, abrandy, cannot be discussed here because it actually is not something a home winemaker should be doing, let's just say....

Deezil · Jun 4, 2012

Well, distillation is illegal in the US, so making a true brandy is a bit impossible for the home winemaker

But you can make a cello, or flavor a neutral brandy or grain alcohol

Cellos can include fruits & herbs - the herbs & the fruit is usually soaked in the alcohol to extract flavors for several week/months & then sweetened with a simple syrup or warmed honey to taste.

Flavoring brandy or grain alcohol, is just the first half of the cello process, & straining out the solids - flavoring brandy is nice to do when making a port; you can f-pack the wine & flavor the fortifier.

seth8530 · Jun 4, 2012

You can also make a fruit "port" by making a fruit wine and fortifying it with ever clear or brandy

olusteebus · Jun 5, 2012

g8keeper said:
well actually, some of the process that truly makes a brandy, well, abrandy, cannot be discussed here because it actually is not something a home winemaker should be doing, let's just say....

Well darn. I don't understand, my good friend has made some peach brandy and everyone tells me it was wonderful.

But then, he is a retired moonshiner!