cold distillation of fig wine

Winemaking Talk - Winemaking Forum

Help Support Winemaking Talk - Winemaking Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
Status
Not open for further replies.

Grod

Junior
Joined
Sep 24, 2016
Messages
27
Reaction score
0
I have made fig wine on two occasions and i have never been happy with it.to dry and not enough flavor.I plan on brewing a batch this year but throwing it in the freezer and only collect what doesn't freeze. Anyone do anything like this? Please comment on the idea/ share input

i read the downside to freeze distilling is that all of the alcohol is captured. W/ a regular still the "first" and "last" runnings or lighter / heavier alcohols are usually discarded due to high methyl/other objectionable content. Liquor distillers have a jargon that refers to this as the heads, hearts, and tails. Ideally one would like to only capture the hearts, but w/ freezing you get it all.
 
Last edited:
Yes! And my post was pulled. Forget the exact explanation but it had to do with possibly cold distillation being an illegal activity without proper tax stamps and such.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Latest posts

Back
Top