Still too hot to distill properly (like, 30*C at 3am in my distillation station) so I'm making applejack
1. Acquire apple juice, add yeast, wait . Repeat until you have 5 or more bottles of hard cider.
2. Freeze the hard apple cider
3. After it's pretty much frozen, put the bottle upside down over an empty one (maybe use a funnel?), collect what comes out when it just begins to melt.
4. You should be left with a block of ice in the top bottle and some really concentrated cider in the bottom bottle. Toss the ice away and keep the concentrate.
5. Keep repeating for all bottles until you're left with a concentrate that no longer wants to freeze.
Congratulations, you've now spent like $8 to make a bottle of hard apple brandy (30% - 40% ABV) without special equipment!
Warning: very strong flavors and infamously hangover inducing.
🐝🐝🐝
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