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Apricots are low in pectin. If I make an apricot wine, will it be low in methanol? Also, can I boil out the fusel alcohols?
Methanol in Apricot Wine
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Fuesel alcohols have a higher vaporisation temp than ethanol.
So basically yes, you can boil off the fuesels...but you will have also boiled off all the other alcohols and wasted your time even fermenting it in the first place.
Fuesel alcohols have a higher vaporisation temp than ethanol.
So basically yes, you can boil off the fuesels...but you will have also boiled off all the other alcohols and wasted your time even fermenting it in the first place.
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Hi pcworkman000999000 - and welcome.
To the best of my knowledge all fruit wines are very low in methanol. Fermentation of simple sugars by yeast produces ethanol with perhaps trace amounts of methanol. You would die of ethanol poisoning long before you suffered any symptoms from methanol. As for fusels - ferment at lower temperatures and provide the yeast adequate nutrients (including organic nitrogen). You don't "boil off" fusels - you simply work not to produce them. Fusel production in wine is considered a fault caused by poor wine making.
Oh... and I have made apricot wine - and it was quite delicious.
To the best of my knowledge all fruit wines are very low in methanol. Fermentation of simple sugars by yeast produces ethanol with perhaps trace amounts of methanol. You would die of ethanol poisoning long before you suffered any symptoms from methanol. As for fusels - ferment at lower temperatures and provide the yeast adequate nutrients (including organic nitrogen). You don't "boil off" fusels - you simply work not to produce them. Fusel production in wine is considered a fault caused by poor wine making.
Oh... and I have made apricot wine - and it was quite delicious.
