OK. There are hundreds of threads on apple jack, and none of them seem to have a step by step with a recipe that actually tastes good. I keep reading threads that say "tastes harsh", but someone always seems to have a friend who made it and it tested great. Is there anyone on here who actually makes applejack, and it actually is good quality. If so, could you please chime in and let us know your process, I would really like to try this.
My first try actually came out delicious..
I made a gallon of apple wine using 3 cans of apple juice concentrate, a cup and a half of sugar and water to top off to 1 gallon. Fermented with Premier cuvee yeast. Bulk aged to 7 months. Right at 7 months is when the hot alcohol flavor had mellowed considerably and the apple flavor had come out more. I backsweetened it with most of a can of apple juice concentrate. I mention that because the product I concentrated tasted good as is. I think it's key to have a good tasting product to start with before you concentrate it. All those flavors good or bad get concentrated.
I poured out a healthy glass from the gallon water jug to make room for expansion when freezing, drank the glass, then threw it in the freezer. The resulting 1/3 of what I started with was awesome! It was strong but fairly smooth. Lots of apple flavor. I dissapeared entirely the next weekend.