Apple Pie?

[Oldvine Zin]

To me apple pie was always - apple pie that you would eat with ice cream, flour, butter,spices, and apples that you would bake into a pie... Never heard of it as flavored alcohol until I started reading this forum.

So a couple of weeks ago I finished fermenting a batch of Booners casual corn sugar head, double distilled it and ended up after aggressive cuts with a little over a Gal of 65%. Split it into 2 1 Gal jars added to each - 2 sliced pealed and cored Granny Smith apples, 2 cinnamon sticks, 1 sliced in half vanilla bean, an 8th cup of brown sugar,and a charred oak spiral.

Did a proof on it today and it as reading 47%, I thought it would of been higher but maybe there was that much water content in the apples? Tasted great and 47ish % - Apple Pie with a bit more age this is going to be a nice fruity drink!!

[Monkeyman88]

You can't use an alchometer on anything other than just ethanol and water.

[Monkeyman88]

Just to clarify, the added sugar will make the mixture more dense, making the alchometer sit higher

[Oldvine Zin]

Just to clarify, the added sugar will make the mixture more dense, making the alchometer sit higher

duh I knew that - maybe my brain is more dense at the moment

[aircarbonarc]

Good recipe, sound like it would be good! I'd be curious to know of the apple flavor after aging awhile.

[Oldvine Zin]

Just to clarify, the added sugar will make the mixture more dense, making the alchometer sit higher

So a my newbie question is how do you proof flavored alcohol?

[Monkeyman88]

Math.

[Oldvine Zin]

Math.

Damn I always hated Math

[Oldvine Zin]

Math.

Damn I always hated Math

and yes I can and will do do the math

[Oldvine Zin]

Math.

Also being challenged in math - how about a little help in your formulas in dealing with sugars

[Monkeyman88]

I'm on my phone so can't be bothered writing out the equations. But they are on the home site.

[Oldvine Zin]

I'm on my phone so can't be bothered writing out the equations. But they are on the home site.

Thanks for your help

[aircarbonarc]

Just to clarify, the added sugar will make the mixture more dense, making the alchometer sit higher

So a my newbie question is how do you proof flavored alcohol?

Try making a syrup to add for sweetner, then use the proofing calcutor and ad the syrup as part of your water

[Bagasso]

If your containers were sealed and you didn't add any liquid then you have pretty much the same ABV that you started out with.

From what I got from the net, 2 apples would add about 100 ml of water, which would bring the ABV down from 65% to around 61.5%.

[Oldvine Zin]

If your containers were sealed and you didn't add any liquid then you have pretty much the same ABV that you started out with.

From what I got from the net, 2 apples would add about 100 ml of water, which would bring the ABV down from 65% to around 61.5%.

Thanks Bagasso !!

[Oldvine Zin]

so going off of the 61.5% estimate I diluted down to 50% and I noticed a alcohol bite that wasn't there at 61.5% - or maybe the higher alcohol masked the bite? wow I have a lot to learn here!