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  1. rick

    Apple Jack

    I see your point, as I am planning to flavor and age my jack from this winter, I was going for bang per buck and the sugar is cheaper than the cider. My neighbor who is legal and doing apple brandy thinks 8% alcohol is the right amount to maintain good flavor.
  2. rick

    Apple Jack

    So if I go ahead and try this, we are really talking about dosages, we do not expect to consume the same amount of FC hard cider as simple hard cider! The more sugar I add the higher the alcohol will be. The colder it gets here, the more water I take off. The resultant product; if aged in a wood barrel should soften a bit. I'll let you know.
  3. rick

    Apple Jack

    And this one that sounds right? The deception side of the war on hard cider was equally cruel. In the years before the ban on alcohol was enacted, newspapers started running stories about the health problems associated with drinking hard cider. The source of those stories? Not doctors, but temperance believers and their supporters in government. After hundreds of years of making and drinking cider, the feds had apparently discovered that cider would make a man blind, lazy, and impotent. I thought the impotence was a nice touch (oh noes, not the testicles!). There was also an apparent outbreak of a disease known as “cider palsy”, in which cider drinkers would develop brain damage and tremors. Blame it on their alcoholism? Naw, it must be the apples. Hence prohibition, and the clear-cutting of the orchards. http://prince-of-earth.blogspot.com/2008/11/working-stiff-hard-cider.html
  4. rick

    Apple Jack

    Have been looking but did not find much. This is one blog on another site; Don't perpetuate a myth. Saccharomyces cerevisiae produces no to virtually no methanol and there is absolutely no reason that cider would have any more than beer or wine. It is possible that the higher quantity of esters, aldehydes, and ketones (other organic molecules) produced from a particular strain of yeast or higher fermentation temperatures may cause some individuals to have worse hangovers, but it's not methanol production. A more likely reason is the speed of consumption. Since cider typically has a higher ethanol content and tends to be rather easy-drinking, people tend to drink more ethanol in a given amount of time. Ultimately, this is what causes a worse hangover (and makes you drunk so quickly). I'm pretty sure that saying someone has "cider palsy" or "apple palsy" is a colorful term for "drunk" - similar to "pissed", "snookered", "sloshed", "tanked", etc. Cheers, Aaron
  5. rick

    Apple Jack

    Looking at the option of making apple jack in the old traditional way of using cold January nights to remove water from hard cider. Does anyone have suggestions for reference materials or experience with this? Thanks, Rick Pete Charlotte, VT
  6. Ben, Can you share what you found out? Rick
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