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does any one have a tried and true recipe like great grandfather or grandfather use to make, an old recipe. Someone told me they had an aquaintance (but wouldn't share the recipe, took it to the grave) he added dried fruit to the cider such as dates, raisins, pineapple and after racking made fruit cakes from the dried fruit to eat with his hard cider. any suggestions would be appreciated.

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CMLursch
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60 gal. plastic food grade drum or wooden keg. 90 lbs. good pennsylvania wine sap apples, 110 lbs. sugar (cheap kind), 10 lbs. raisens, 13 packs good champagne yeast, H2O to top off drum with proper headspace. Adjust acidity to spec., wait 4 months, rack about 45-47 gallons of the best apple wine ya ever had (14-16%). Never had any luck with the freezing thing, if there's a trick let me know. Froze some of this once & had the same alcohol content after about half frozen & if ya left it too long the whole thing would freeze (5 gal jug).Good luck.
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PA-ter

Since distillation of alcohol by any method is highly illegal in most of the world, the following link is provided for academic purposes only:

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(Scroll down to "Freezing")

As pointed out there, if you "accidentally" leave your apple jack outside in the winter, and it "coincidentally" freezes, it may not be illegal. :)

Or to quote a famous politician, "It's only illegal if you get caught".

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Negodki

FWIW, here's a brief discussion on the subject:

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glad heart

Thanks guys, I've got 5 gal. of last years apple (14%) to play with, I'll see what I can come up with.

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PA-ter

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