Many years ago when we bought the house I planted a Mirabelles tree and an apricot tree with the (secret) intention of making two of my favorite fruit brandys: eau de vie Mirabelles and Barack Palinka. Unfortunately, the deer chewed up most of the bark and branches of the apricot tree but the Mirabelles (red) have been plentiful ever since. However, I kept the apricot tree and one season we had little yellow plums on it, many. First I thought they were yellow Mirabelles but the flesh is harder and the fruit is sour, not sweet. Not for eating.
Now I’ve finally found out it’s a hybrid of plums and apricots called plumcot or apriplums. I had suspected it but never bothered to look it up. Now that I am planning to distill the fruit for the first time I decided to find out: a hybrid of my two favorite fruits!
Does anyone have experience from this hybrid? Since it’s not sweet, and quite firm fleshwise, I’m not sure how to get it to ferment. It does have sugar for sure, some, but there’s not much juice to press out of it. Any thoughts what I can do with my plumcots?
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