Timeline for How do you brew high alcohol beers at home?
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| Mar 18, 2014 at 20:28 | comment | added | Another Compiler Error | Freezing does concentrate undesirables, which is removed in traditional distilling. | |
| Mar 18, 2014 at 20:26 | comment | added | Another Compiler Error | The law is similar in UK too traditional distilling requires bits of paper and paying tax while freezing doesn't. | |
| Mar 18, 2014 at 19:14 | comment | added | Denny Conn | It may parallel it, but technically it's different. The law sees it that way, too. | |
| Mar 18, 2014 at 16:51 | comment | added | Another Compiler Error | These boys are happy with the term wiki.homedistiller.org/Freeze_distillation I consider homedistiller.org a good resource. "Such enrichment parallels enrichment by true distillation, where the evaporated and recondensed portion is richer than the liquid portion left behind." | |
| Mar 17, 2014 at 20:15 | comment | added | Denny Conn | That may be what wikipedia says, but it is incorrect. Distillation removes alcohol from water. Freezing removes water from alcohol. That is why freeze concentrating is legal in the US for homebrewers and distillation is not. | |
| Mar 17, 2014 at 17:11 | comment | added | Another Compiler Error | "Freeze distillation is a term for a process of enriching a solution by partially freezing it and removing frozen material that is poorer in the dissolved material than is the liquid portion left behind" [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_freezing#Freeze_distillation] | |
| Mar 17, 2014 at 17:09 | history | edited | Another Compiler Error | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 17, 2014 at 17:01 | history | edited | Another Compiler Error | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 17, 2014 at 17:01 | comment | added | Another Compiler Error | I was responding to this part of the question, "achieving anything over 11% in a homebrew environment is not very realistic". It's a way to achieve beer to high ABV. Shall I reposition as a comment to the question then? | |
| Mar 16, 2014 at 21:12 | comment | added | Denny Conn | That's not brewing it to that strength, though. And technically it's freeze concentration, not distillation. | |
| Mar 16, 2014 at 15:43 | history | answered | Another Compiler Error | CC BY-SA 3.0 |