Apricot Brandy, first attempt

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Well. After reading this fine forum I let my wife (and kids) buy me a still as a late father's day present.

At the same time our apricot tree is FULL of fruit. I filled a 10 gallon fermenter with chopped up, pitted apricots and started to make a wine out of it. After the second day in the fermenter my wife asked if I could make brandy instead.

SURE.... that should make a good first distilling project. The still should be in on Tuesday or Wednesday.

I am not sure if doing a stripping run and then a spirit run will keep the apricot flavor I am after or if I am better to do a single distillation and try to cut carefully.


The funniest thing was when I was looking to source a keg to use as a kettle. My wife asked why I was being obtuse about the use I was going to put the keg to. She had no idea it was illegal to make moonshine...