Distilling box/bargain wine

[cmac62]

I gotta gets some brewing in soon as I have an event next month that I need some beer for, so when brewing it should be easy to set up a sugar wash for some neutral/gin to be. Hopefully it won't be too hot hear this weekend. If I can I'd also like to get my gal of molasses into a fermenter. What fun.

 

[bernardsmith]

Just goes to show what an outsider looking in sees. Knowing what I know about about fermenting beer, fermenting under pressure to reduce fusels and freezing that product looks viable to streamline the process. Take all of that with a grain of salt, because I have never stilled anything.

At what temperature will a 12% wine freeze? Ethanol freezes at minus 173 F. Most home wine makers and would be distillers don't have equipment that will freeze that low. So, the cost of freezing ethanol would likely be far higher than the cost of boiling the liquid and collecting what condenses

 

[Red over White]

At what temperature will a 12% wine freeze? Ethanol freezes at minus 173 F. Most home wine makers and would be distillers don't have equipment that will freeze that low. So, the cost of freezing ethanol would likely be far higher than the cost of boiling the liquid and collecting what condenses

Just like eisbock, freezing the water out is the goal. Any freezer would work as a first step before applying heat.

As a non distiller, making a very clean wash under pressure with the least amount of higher alcohols and getting rid of water in my way would be my way.

 

[SaskBrewer306]

I recently got counter top still and was thinking about getting a big jug or box of cheepish wine and stilling it. Has anyone done this and how did it turn out? Also, is it better to distill red or white? Can it be done decently in a one and done with a little pot still? Thanks

I know this is old, but I've done it. Undrinkable white wine, distilled, put it on oak chips until I got the colour I like. It's really decent. 10/10 would do it again if I buy **** wine.