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Old fruit

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New still will be arriving in a week or so, so I'm thinking about a sacrificial run. Was planning to do simple sugar but now it seems I might have another option. When cleaning out my elderly mother's freezer I found probably 50 pint bags of frozen fruit, mostly peaches, various years but all too old to eat. I know these came from her peach trees, not bought stuff. They still look and smell fine, not freezer burned. I'm wondering would they make a good mash for a sacrificial run, or would they possibly still be good for a real run? They don't seem to have a freezer smell, but if they do, do y'all think it would carry thru the distillation? I don't want to waste them if they might be able to make something drinkable. I was feeding a few bags a day to the hogs before I got this idea.
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DON'T waste the fruit
Save it for a brandy run.
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That sounds too good to sacrifice!

If you can get a 1.75 liter bottle of Calypso rum for about $10, you'll have the cheapest alcohol I could find. Maybe water it down to about 40 proof before you run it.
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Throwing away fruit in a sac run would be sac! Sacrilegious that is! Make a sugar wash to get your fermenting chops up, sac that and then make some brandy!
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Turn them into a puree and let them ferment, for sure you will get something good, don't throw them away!
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Throw them my way. 😎🎱
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Thanks for the suggestions - brandy it will be. It will be my first brandy attempt, gonna have to do more reading here.
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