White peaches

[Old Town]

I have two white peach trees full of peache's.. Has anyone out there ever made a ferment with white peaches?

[Saltbush Bill]

Let me know if you have any luck, I can get truck loads of those things.
Ive never bothered with them personally as they seem lacking in flavour compered to other peaches.

[Old Town]

I'm going to give them a try and I'll let you know

[Shine0n]

from what I just read on white peaches it states that they are less acidic than yellow and are sweet either firm or well ripened. I say go for it, if you own a refractometer just squeeze some good clear liquid and check the brix.
if it's above 12 your good as gold but from what I just reread peaches are alot higher than 12 brix.

Good luck and let us know the outcome, one more thing... DON'T ADD SUGAR!!!

[Old Town]

Why no sugar will I lose flavor?

[Pikey]

So they say. Peach is hard to get the flavour across in any case.

[Old Town]

I got enough of them I think I'll try it with and without.

[Pikey]

If You're going to do that, please try a referment on the mush which you filter out plus some of what's left in your still after first run, using sugar to give it some more alcohol, as well - along the lines of a "Grappa" - see what differences you get through these ways of doing it.

I'll be very interested to hear what you find

[Shine0n]

The peach flavor will be at its best without sugar BUT if you decide to use it just go less than .5 lb per gallon and do ferment on the fruit as it will have far better results, just get rid of the stones!!!
I did some peach with sugar and it turned out very good, it needed over 7 months for the taste to develop into something special.
The others I did with no sugar had a smaller yield but was packed with sweet flavors from the get go. It's been a year now and the flavors are incredible and is the finest drink I've made to date. (fruit wise)

If you have a thumper it can be used to your advantage!!!
Place the cleared must in the boiler and the skins and stuff in the thumper, there will be no scorching that way and you won't have to squeeze anything plus you keep precious alcohol to extract.
keep us informed,
Shine0n

[Old Town]

Thanks for the advice pikey and shineOn both suggestion are much appreciated. I'll keep you all posted, still got a bit before the peaches are ready to go. I don't have a thumper wish I did maybe in the future.

[Shine0n]

You'll love it when you do, are you running a pot still?

[Shine0n]

Sorry, I just went back and looked. I see you have a simple pot still and your abv is just fine for a single run.
If you're looking for higher abv the I suggest doing several stripping runs then do a spirit run with the low wines lower than 40% possibly 25-30% to be on the safety side of things.