SC - Brandy

[Wes Will]

>in any case, if you happen to be "chilling" your mead and it happens
>to get slushy and when you decant it some of the slush remains, i

Basically that was the atf man's point.

>besides, i would thing the two processes would produce very different
>results...
>the hot method will only remove stuff which evaporates yielding a more
>pure alcohol with less solid matter bound in the drink.  Also the heat
>may change the character of the brew.. 

And how.

>sure, but i thought that water will freeze mostly pure in mixtures)

Basically true.

>now... if you hot distilled the stuff.... boiled off some water, and
>then added the alcohol back to the original, then you'd have some of
>the solids left.

And when you heated it for purpose of distillation you would be in
violation of federal law, and probably state law as well, and you can be
busted for it.

What was that distilling list address again?  It does more likely belong
there, and I will subscribe for one day to discuss this, but then I will
have to leave.  I already get a bazillion messages, and I'm going to switch
this list to digest today or tomorrow to slow the spate.


Eoin
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