Format: Hardcover  

ISBN: 9780764339264

Pages: 176

Copyright Year: 2012

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This comprehensive, technical guide offers the curious home distiller pretty much everything there is to know about distilling fruit brandies. Raw materials, fermentation, mashing, alcohol determination, clarifying and filtering, storage -- all are presented in great detail through text, diagrams and photos. Every aspect of distilling is covered, including timing, yields, detecting errors, and more. This guide also offers a thorough introduction to the proper usage of equipment, ranging from measuring devices and vessels to simple stills and stills with enhancement systems, or columns. And for the enterprising distiller there is also an introduction to the process of grain distillation. Here is a great resource for adventurous artisans, home brewers and vintners.