What would cause brandy to get....

[Grayson_Stewart]

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pothead
(member)
03/30/04 07:42 PM

What would cause brandy to get....

a friend of mine made some brandy from grapes, aged it in charred oak with dried apricots. He filtered it out nice, and when he went to water it down to 40% it got cloudy.
Why would this happen? What could I do to avoid this when my grape is ready? Would carbon help?

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Brain_Solenoid
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03/30/04 08:50 PM

Re: What would cause brandy to get.... new [re: pothead]

I recall my first batch of Rum doing this. It was almost 40% on the button when it went cloudy. Classically, this occurs due to too many tails in the final product. If the distillate was collected down to a low percentage, such as in the 40's percentage wise, then there are probably too many tails. On this batch I just completed recently, I stopped collecting my last final run on my pot still at 55% and saved the rest as tails.

Then again, the fruit pectins in the soaking fruit could have caused some as well. If so, I should think a good filtering would take a lot of that out. If it is tails, charcoaling would help as well.

BS

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Peter
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04/01/04 07:31 AM

Re: What would cause brandy to get.... new [re: Brain_Solenoid]

it can be plastic coming out of solution when diluted. if you have no plastic on the condenser side it is no problem.
also can occur when mineral water is added and percipitates come out