Wine Making Information

Question: Wine and wine-making related question...?

(Posted by: mervin c on 2009-10-03 05:08:25)

What do they mean about "Neutral Alcohol ", "Condensing ", and "Redistillation "???? And can somebody tell me the process of condensing wine???

Posted by: TorxBit on 2009-10-03, 06:52:46

It is also called distillation. You heat the wine until it vaporizes then when it cools it condenses back to liquid. The trick is to get the alcohol to vaporize but nothing else. This is done via strict temperature control. Neutral Alcohol means pure alcohol. In reality this is 190 proof because without taking extra steps this is as pure as most distillation setups can make it. Redistillation is the process of taking what you distilled and distill it again. It is one way to get above that 190 mark.

Posted by: Richard M on 2009-10-03, 07:34:23

Distilling. Brandy is distilled wine, whiskey is distilled beer. the object is to heat the wine/ beer enough for the alcohol to evaporate to a vapour and then to condense back to a liquid of a higher alcoholic strength with the characteristics of the wine/ beer. When distillation has finished and the spirit is ready to be taken out of the still, then the first and last part of the liquid, commonly called the heads and tails, is discarded because it is not a potable product. 1 of 2 things happens with this, it is either sent off for further rectification for industrial purposes or it's put back into the still to be redistilled. This happens more in pot distillation (single batch) rather than coffey distillation(continuous).