How to make APPLE JACK! FREEZER MOONSHINE! 35% ABV with FREEZE DISTILLING
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- Try APPLE JACK. A uniquely American drink that dates back to the American Colonies. All you need is some hard cider and a freezer! ***PROTIP: SET YOUR FREEZER TO ITS COLDEST SETTING!!! The recipe and method are detailed below.
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Bearded and Bored #AppleJack Recipe - 30% to 40% ABV:
1 gallon - Apple Juice - NO PRESERVATIVES
3 cups - Dark Brown Sugar
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1. Combine all ingredients, airlock and ferment the apple wine for a month or more until fermentation is complete and wine is clear.
2. Siphon apple wine into a clean bucket to combine with the thawed apple juice concentrate, then bottle in plastic bottles.
3. Freeze the bottles for 2 days.
4. Add a clean object (shot glass, measuring cup, etc.) to the bottom of large cups that will catch the runoff apple jack. Open your frozen bottles, tip them into your cups and let them drain at room temp, or in the refrigerator until the ice left over is mostly white.
5. Collect all the drained apple jack and save. Rinse the remaining ice out of your bottles, then refill with apple jack and refreeze.
6. Repeat steps 3 thru 5 until the apple jack no longer freezes, or is not frozen enough to keep the ice in the bottle. Usually 3 to 4 freezes will do it.
7. Bottle your finished apple jack and enjoy in moderation unless you enjoy hangovers:-)
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BEFORE YOU RUSH TO WARN US ALL ABOUT METHANOL READ THIS: Here' s a company that makes a commercial version of Apple Jack produced through freeze distilling. www.alcohollery.com/Spirit There is no way that this distillery could produce Apple Jack by freeze distillation if it had dangerous levels of methanol. The TTB and ATF regulate the alcohol industry very strictly. It can take months to get recipe approval for a single spirit. For that approval a distillery must submit samples of the spirit, beer or wine to be tested for, among other things, methanol content. It is a fact that the level of methanol in apple jack is not dangerous. Calm down.
Jacked cider is no more dangerous than consuming the cider it came from,, that feels obvious to me :)
You'd think so, but I've had a lot of folks with their hair on fire telling me I'm going to kill people. They hear the word methanol and freak out. It's just misunderstandings and myths that take root. Hopefully this will help:-)
Well, as I remember from school, cold makes reactions less likely to happen. So, if freezing coul increase methanol-content, then all ethanol would sooner or later turn to methanol just from being stored. We know for a fact that this does not happen. And thus, jacking cider does not change the ratio of ethanol/methanol.
1 gallon jug of juice, 1 can of concentrate for sweetening. You can watch the video again to see, or check out the list for the recipe in the video description below.
Science!
I’ve been making applejack on my front porch in five gallon buckets for more than 30 YEARS. I have yet to poison anyone. And, yes, it is primo delicious.
That's awesome!
TEACH ME YOUR WAYS SENPI!
rubberman302 easy peasy, buster: 5 gallon food grade bucket, with a bung lid and and air lock, start with three gallons of fresh apple cider, 2 pounds of sugar, and 1 envelope of Cuvée yeast. Do your first ferment in the house, rack it, then put it out on the porch. Every time it freezes, peel the lid back, pull off the ice freezes. Continue doing this until no more ice forms, then bottle. Don’t let your alcoholic uncle know you’re doing this, or it will be disappeared whilst you sleep.
@@RestingBitchface7 >Don’t let your alcoholic uncle know you’re doing this...
Sounds like you know this from experience. :)
I live in indiana so I can make this happen this winter
This man has just received the “Best person ever” award from Teen Boys magazine
Teen Boys know where it's at.
Teen Girls magazine as well 🙈
Ambla?
That's not creepy
@Mario Salinas why secretly? your mom going to catch you and get mad? lol jeeez people are fucked. I bet you're hiding it from your mom or wife or girlfriend, w.e you want to call her LOL, because she will put you in timeout.
A tip from a Swedish viewer.
The remaining liquid can be carbonated and become a nice light drink for the summer.
Interesting:-)
Are you saying carbonate the leftover ice? Or carbonate the applejack? Cuz I dont know if you could consider apple Jack "light"
@@Keraed He meant the ice
@@ashwinsnmv But after it's melted lol
Love the idea of getting both liquor and soda out of my apples. Gonna be funny when a friend tries it as a mixer and just... turns it back into cider?
Here we all are in isolation. Gather round children. Today we are going to perform a chemistry experiment.
LOL!
A chemistry experiment that takes over a week lmao
did that a few years back. I put a couple of shots in my beer. I was sitting down enjoying it playing ps3....then woke up in bed and my wife was mad
Nice man
Easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
@@MrWhateverfits that it is
Matt C - fuck... this triggered a flashback for me for some reason.😶😵
*_and now, we are going to add a shot of vodka_*
I drank some of this and pissed in the laundry basket.
That definitely wasn't in my recipe instructions, but I can appreciate the improvisation;-)
@@BeardedBored LOL
I had someone piss in my suitcase once. But it was Coors light, not apple liquor.
@@MrJones-em7ub I wind up on double secret probation about 4 to 5 times a year. 😂
@@MrJones-em7ub The Gourds are tight! I like the Gin and Juice song too. I've been playing acoustic music for 35 years and always look and listen for good material. Thanks.
Feedback Everyone: I made this apple jack. It works. Although my attempt was not as slick/flawless as Bearded & Bored's video, it did result in some tasty "apple whisky" or whatever. Fun experience. I recommend.
Did it make u drunk?
The last time I drank apple jack I fell asleep in my back garden and when I came round I realized it wasn’t my garden 😜🥱
Hahaha!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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"I'm not a rich people." I don't know why that was so funny. LMAO
Rich person*
It was hilarious!
If you laughed you're not a rich people either. That being said, I'm still trying to catch my breath.
immortal9922 no that's a direct quote. He was making a joke
One fun thing with applejack... Add some dry ice to chill and carbonate it. Then chill a stainless steel bowl with some more dry ice. Pour a little in the super cold stainless bowl and it will freeze as it bubbles. The resulting chips are best used as garnish on vanilla ice cream
Great tip!
First heard of this technique way back in the early 80s where it was referred to as making "Winter Wine". Basically the same thing only using wine instead of hard cider. Rather than using such small water bottles, a regular 5 gal bucket was used and placed in a chest freezer where the ice that formed on top was easier to remove rather than draining those tiny bottles over and over again.
I knew a guy in upstate New York. He had a few apple trees on his property. He would fill up a barrel with the apples and make cider. He told me that the apples had a natural yeast on them and that would make the cider hard. In the winter he would skim off the ice on top of the cider. Thanks for bringing back a memory.
I do a 5 gallon run of this in the fall. When I do my fermentation I like to throw 3-4 cinnamon sticks, 4-6 hole cloves in then let sit. This year I added 2 cups honey and 2 concentrated frozen orange juice cans in. Oh boy I made something special.
That sounds great! I'm a bit gun-shy on using cloves. Ruined a batch with too many cloves and couldn't taste anything else. I'll have to try again with your ratio. Thanks for posting this:-)
well it seems like I'll do two runs of apple jack, one for "everyday" and one for Christmas .... and I just told my collegue that I should be less on TH-cam, as I get to many stupid ideas out of it xD
sounds like what one of my dads former buddies brought over for a christmas party, straight up drinkable apple pie that kicks like a mule
@@BeardedBored Use fresh ginger instead.
is your recipe the same as his, but multiplied by 5?
"It's gonna punch you in the face!"
Me: SOLD!
“It’s gonna kick you right in your asshole and make out with your girlfriend!”
RIP to everyone who was like "don't threaten me with a good time" when he said this isn't guzzling liquor lol.
:-)
So after some experimentation I have succeeded in making a lemon drop Jack using this same process. I promised you that I would keep you updated. Basically you start off by creating the strongest sweetest homemade lemonade that you possibly can. And then just like with the Jack you are going to add your yeast to the mix and then cap it with your burp valve. It doesn't start to Bubble for about two to two-and-a-half weeks and honestly I let it sit for almost 2 months. Don't know if it needs to sit that long I just got busy with other things and forgot about it. Siphon it out and put it into your containers that you are going to use for freezing it. Just like with Applejack keep straining and freezing until it no longer freezes. Then put the new filtered liquid into one container and add copious amounts of sugar. I think I ended up adding about a cup to a cup and a half of white sugar. Shake until completely dissolved. Pour into 750ml mason jars and add a couple slices of lemon to each jar. You should end up with two 750ml mason jars. Let it sit again in the refrigerator for about a week before you drink it. It's really freaking good. I think my next Jack experiment is going to see if I can make a decent pina colada Jack
Dude, that sounds delicious!!
For lemon, start with a complimentary fruit wine. Like cherry or strawberry.
When you rack it out of the primary, build your lemonade in the leftovers in the primary fermenter. The yeast tends to take right off, and the resulting lemonade is the best.
@@colonelangus7535 great idea. I've got some mead brewing. After racking it, that lees could kick off the lemon jack nicely.
Jacked Skeeter Pee? Sounds delicious.
Pro tip: When bottling, bottle over the open door of your (clean) dishwasher. All the mess stays on the door. Close it up and run your dishes to clean.
Great tip, thanks
Brother, you just changed my life
i guess its a wider, flatter platform than the sink? is that it?
Pro tip: Dont say pro tip, thats hippy shit and use a fauken sink.
@@dontsettlefor500mill it lets you put the product on the counter and have more drop for he gravity feed into the bottles.
I got some real smooth apple pie moonshine about a month ago. Even at 70% ABL, it was so smooth I sat around a fire with a couple buddies one night and we went through the entire jar. Great night, horrible morning after
after the two shots there'll be a little dude with horns standing on my shoulder saying "you know you want more" and an angel on the other shoulder saying "I've never been able to stop you before....prepare for hangover"
HAHAHA!
😆👿🤘
Oh I know these guys😁
The little guy on my grandfather's other shoulder always replied with a "Hey, I'm the Good Guy, remember? The Battle Ax (wife) is not around today, and your grandkid stashes his bottles under his bed. You should remove that temptation, sir." And grandpa would show up in my room and say "Half your bottle, half mine, and we both buy the snacks."
Miss those times.
Legend says he's still liking and replying to comments
It is my gift...and my curse.
@@BeardedBored some legends are true
@@zacharypappalardo3789 Indeed;-)
Stick it on the stove and heat it at 146 F for 20 mins to get off the methanol and reduce the apple palsy lol. Ive done this before and it only made it a little less smooth.. I think the methanol makes it better taste wise but not for the next morning
You are literally the only person I've talked to that actually tried this. Lots of folks float the idea of cooking off the methanol, but I've never found a real answer as to whether it works. Thanks for posting:-)>
@@BeardedBored Lucky for us, the good Lord saw fit to make the bad alcohol boil off at a lower temperature than the good alcohol!
So I'd actually bump the heat up slightly to 150 for safety sake. I know the boiling point is 148, but I'd want to be DAMN sure. I don't want to risk methanol poisoning, personally. Wood alcohol will fuck your life.
@@BeardedBored If you bought a sous vide machine, this would be very simple to do. Easily control the temperature by using a water bath.
PhilthyMr Basty in theory that could work well. If you put the open container in the sv water and let it go for a while... you may have given me a great idea.
"The worst hangover I ever had" .... You underestimate your audience sir!
Ha Ha!
He ain't lyin about that hangover
Hahah made it literally taste like alcohole jack and yet no hangover I made a gallon of it for a party hahahah
Milan Gajic lol 😂😂😂😂😂
If you've ever road the Red Horse in the Philippines then you can talk to me about hangovers. 😉
Thanks for what you do. I appreciate your time in showing how things are done. If it wasn't for you and George Duncan, I would've never gotten into homebrewing and distillation.
Holy shit......one of my best friends "accidentally" made this back in the day. We were at his place and he had made hard cider that he was freezing to kill off any excess yeast or something like that and we had run out of beer. He told me about the cider and it poured the bit that hadn't frozen into a mug, it was sweet but also very sour and strong as hell. We dubbed it "Apple Fuck" because it fucked me up. haha Man, I miss that guy.
RIP Dan.
The warning is 4:10 long. This stuff must be good. Count me in!
You just saved me 3 mins You the Man!!!!!
Lmaoooooo I'm dead 😭😂😂💀
Sweet! Pressed and made 40+ gallons of hard cider this year, now I know what I'm going to do with some of it. Tree of woe here I come...
hahahahahahaha
wait, if it's already "hard cider" why would you want to do this? "hard cider" is cider with alcohol .... this is a video on how to turn regular apple juice into applejack
@@anonyninja7737 this is to turn the "hard" cider, into "harder" cider😉
@@anonyninja7737 if you skip the freezing part it is basically hard cider.
I grew up in a dry county. This was the first thing I learned to make as a teenager. I still remember the hangover.
This is the first and only video I’ve watched and I thoroughly enjoyed it , you stick mostly too the facts with some humour and very good instructions!! I’ll be starting my first batch of apple jack this weekend !! Wish me luck up here in the middle of Canada ! Keep making the videos !
Good luck on your batch:-)
Not gonna kill you, probably...
Me: meah, good enough.
Lol
the ratio of methanol and other stuff to ethanol will be the same as in some cider or beer. It's just easier to drink half a fifth of hard alcohol than it is to drink a ton of cider, and since the water content is a lot higher in cider that would also make the hangover not as bad.
Good present for enemy. Do not give warning about hangover
Can't wait to start sending them to the tree of woe
Yah, not really. While there is a far off thread of reality the whole "blind" thing is 99.9% urban myth spread to try and stop people from drinking during prohibition. Drinking pure methanol can be lethal and or blinding but we are talking a very small fraction of a percent here. Most of the bad effects of "bootleg liquor" were because of really stupid and dangerous practices like adding methanol to the hootch for a bigger kick and using old radiators for condensing coils adding lead and old antifreeze into the mix.
Sounds just like the perfect "one shot before bedtime" drink. I've got a gallon of H. cider finishing up. Maybe I'll give this a try !
Sounds like dreams of satan fucking your stomach, but could be appealing to some.
This is just fabulous, I had some plum wine just finishing so have put it in the freezer! Thank you for this. Best wishes from the South of France.
I hope it turns out well for you:-)
I had this same thing in Germany. They called it Apple core there. Anyways the last thing I remember is the third one. I woke up at 2pm the next day in my friends car. They couldn’t get me inside. I asked what happened while my head was still throbbing like hell. They said lets just say your not allowed back there EVER 🤣🤣🤣
"It's not any more dangerous than drinking an entire gallon of hard apple cider."
...uhhh...
Rookie
Haha, my first time drinking I was 15 or 16, chugged about 2/3s of a thing of rum cause I had no idea what the right amount was. Managed to watch Star Wars, talk to my mother, and wake up remembering the full night. Ah to be made of rubber and magic again
my first time drinking was 13, i drank like half a bottle of vodka and blacked out and woke up in a puddle of vomit and had to clean it up and shower while still very intoxicated and i missed a bunch of spots in my hair
@@ac0rps32 Damn that's rough
First time drinkin was 9 I stole a bottle of Jack and some other shit with some buddies and polished off 8 shots and went to bed
Nothing like a handsome man making delicious drink.
Bless.
I drank half a pint of that Devils nectar and got my head stuck in the sliding doors of a moving London underground train. I had to run sideways for 100 yards with my head stuck, until the passengers stopped laughing and pulled me in just before the platform ended. Its was great.
Dude...what a well crafted piece of information dissemination! BRAVO!!
Thanks!
I am SO FREAKING THANKFUL the internet was not around when I was growing up... I was one of those kids.. Not unlike most of my friends that would have definitely had to see for myself what applejack would actually do LOL nice video tho man
Same here, brother. Same here.;-)
at first i was like "aghhhhh i bet hes gonna be annoying" by the end of the vid i was like " holy crap this dudes a genius"
I love it when I go from "hopefully this video will be alright" to "yeah so I might go ahead and subscribe"
@@NilesBlackX fucking spot on mate! I was like "for real? This man knows his stuff, you sir deserve my likes and my subscription and if i was a little less poor i would sign up to a patreon" :p
And none of the annoying dribble that comes form any other youtube "persona" with their 2 minute intros, smh.
The length of the video had me skeptical about finishing it, but there was no filler here, all good talk. And I subscribed after I finished. I will be turning some of my hard cider into Applejack pronto.
Very interesting,and I definitely learned something,and would love a taste,sounds delicious.
I made my own and it turned out pretty good. Even added a cinnamon stick to marinate in it.
I've had this on my Watch Later list for I don't even know how long. I finally watched it today and sir, you've gained yourself a new subscriber. Thanks!!
Thanks Joe! That reminds me, I should really go through my watch later list:-)
He's not joking, kids. Worst hangover ever. Me and some cousins got into my grandpa's 'jack one Christmas. Not a happy holiday.
All I was thinking while reading this was Chevy Chase and Christmas vacation lol
@@PsycoVictor67 Was he gracious enough to be mowing the lawn at 8:30 in the morning by your window the next day?
@@davemeddlehed564 what???
@@PsycoVictor67 When I was young and got into my grandfather's stash of booze he made sure mow the lawn right by my window the next morning, knowing full well I'd be feeling like hammered shit. Just a joke, sort of.
Dave Meddlehed lmao
A little late to the Apple Palsy Party but gonna start this weekend. Great info and a good vibe from your vid. Thank You.
I love this. As a kid I lived on the west coast, in an area that grew apples commercially and sold both beer and cider in bars ... and cheap fortified wines called 'Apple Jack' and 'Double Jack'. Very cheap, just what a 'young adult' wanted. Cut to the early eighties and I'm living on the east coast of Canada, in an area of small farms, each of which has abandoned apple trees in its tree lines. I used to pick apples enough for gallons of both sweet and hard cider and, of course, I had to freeze all that I could...then I began the redux by heat method and slowly both apple jack, and then apples, fell out of favor. Just as my making beer from grains I malted slowly disappeared...just too much time when I was working long days at a job (or jobs). Maybe I have to reconsider that abandonment.
Get back into it:-)
Got to try this. Famous last words. Can't wait.
His logo looks like Vegeta when it's upside down, lol. Enjoyed the video!
@ChristianMajor
Reminds me of the Gruffman beard comb logo without the bears' ears. 🦍
Literally....GTFO 😂😂😂
Lol!
Christian Major omg holy shit...
oh my god this is the best thing i heard all week... it looks EXACTLY like him!!!!!!
I tried this recently, altough I wasn't able to achieve that high % with my freezer, it was indeed very tasty!
I would say I got it around 25-28% which is not bad considering I didn't even run my freezer on full blast!
Hello Jarmo, did you use apple concentrate or just shop bought apple juice?
@@tariqmalik8073 Concentrate, but of course freshly pressed juice or just using fresh apples will give a bit tastier results especially because of the skins, just remember that apple seeds are poisonous and thus they have to be removed. Also I must remind you that because this method is basically cold extraction, it will become sweeter the denser the solution gets on each round of freezing and melting, so I recommend making it from dry or almost dry wine unless you like it really sweet. And be careful buddy, it doesn't burn almost at all when you drink it, so it's very easy to drink too much! :)
Bro your channel is super amazing I have learnt tones of staff from you . You are very very smart and . I like your sense of humor you rock.
Thanks!
Thank you so much for making this video! My girlfriend and I were inspired and had to make this! We didn't follow exactly what you did, and we went a little overboard (5 gallon batch), but the finished product is absolutely amazing and has quickly become our drink of choice (in moderation of course). Thank you so much again for this and if you're ever down near Orlando Florida I'll make sure to have some for you :)
So glad you guys are enjoying it. Way to go jumping head first into the deep end:-) Best hobby there is. Have you tried making the sweet sparkling cider yet? I think you might like it.
Interesting process. Will contemplate this on the tree of woe.
Very interesting video. The presentation is warm, friendly and informative. I like your beard, and I am so impressed with your beautifully decorated, clean and orderly kitchen. I looks like one from the Home and Garden magazine. Thanks for making the video and uploading it on TH-cam.
Thanks Wayne!
Bearded!!!! Just made my very first batch the other day. It came out very successful. Thanks for the video and not letting me screw it up. You're the best bro
Congrats!!
@@BeardedBored Thanks again please keep the videos going
@@chadpunisher Will do:-)
Worst hangover I've ever had was from ice wine. I've also put down a gallon hard cider in an evening. It was at a wedding with an open bar. Local cider/wine company supplied the bottles. The family kept track, and I drank well over a gallon.
I used to make this in North Dakota all the time, lived in a man camp in the middle of nowhere, no transportation, no alchohol allowed. Apple juice, sugar packets, bread yeast, and piles of snow to freeze the bottles in.
Nice! That's some serious ingenuity:-)
Man Camp! Lol...sounds like Boy Scouts for grown ups. Sounds awesome!
@@johns2926 the "man camps" is where all the oilfield workers would live during the oil boom, drilling for oil in remote locations like North Dakota.
We would have camps with up to 800 people living in them, your room is the size of a jail cell, and you use public showers. Far from awesome lol. Just a place to sleep, people would work 15+ hours days, 7 days a week.
@@MikeP350 greetings from GoM oil patch
I bet you lived in Watford City.
Just started this as my first attempt at home brewing a few days ago this will test my patience
i do this all the time with my home made wine and only freeze distill it twice it works great
That was honestly riviting. I'd love to try making it sometime as it seems to be like Calvados ?
Very interesting and entertaining video Thanks for the tutorial
looks nice, will have to try it some time. I have tried that method with a red ale, It worked very well.
Not just colonial times. I grew up in New York apple country. The old guys that were always hanging around the cider house made apple jack just the way you describe, and taught young me as well :-)
Gonna try this with some beauty berry wine I made. The wine is already at about 14% so this should end well! Thanks for the idea and know-how.
Sounds delicious! Have fun:-)
If you want the metanol out just warm it up to 76,1C° for maby 5-10 min. Then most of the metanol is damped off. 😉
I agree completely! That is why when you distill moonshine, you toss out the first runnings called the "heads" which is all of the methanol stuff. Methanol boils off at 148.46 F. Alcohol does not boil out until it reaches about 173.1 F. So, it stands to reason that if you heat your applejack to 170 F for a few minutes the methanol will all evaporate out of the mixture. Clearly, this means you MUST have good control over the heating process. Cuz if you heat much past 173 F you will lose some or all of the ethanol (which is the good stuff!)
@@kingfisherblues57 if you heat it up slowly enough, and maybe stir it as you do. Once it reaches about 65C, the temperature rise should significantly slow down. Then, when the temperature begin to rise again, you would have removed most of the methanol.
You are basically distilling your applejack, but instead of keeping the product, you are simply letting it float away into the air.
@@ginsederp I appreciate this comment! You confirmed my theory!
My Dad used to do this with his expensive cognac after he figured out that I was watering it down....LOL!
Ha ha! Too bad I didn't know about it back in high school. Got grounded for nicking my dad's whiskey;-)
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@@robertjohnny1770 You really out here typing like it’s 2010 still.Lmao you like 25-30 tryna be a hipster or sum🤣
I've made this a coupole of times and it's fantastic. Thanks for the video.
Great video! There is an easier and less messy method for those with limited freezer space - put your product into a one gallon milk jug. Fill the jug just below the lower part of the handle to allow for the expansion of the ice. Fill with product and place the jug into your freezer. Once an hour, open your freezer and give your jug a few vigorous shakes - this causes the ice within the slush to compact together forming a larger and larger ice ball within the jug. When you have formed a ball the size of a softball, empty the jug into a second milk jug, dispose of the ice, and place the jug back in your freezer. When you have reached the point where the slush will not coalesce, either strain the remaining ice or enjoy your beverage in its icy state. No need to transfer product in and out of small bottles and you can process as one large batch. I would recommend using only milk jugs as the plastic is flexible and allows for unexpected ice expansion without breaching the container. Also, the ice will not stick to the inside of the container, so you can shake or push the ice away from the opening making it fast and easy to drain.
Thanks for the tip!
Last time I checked ice contracts not expands
@@paulaxton72 water when frozen expands by 10%
my wife' s friend made vermouth which was disgusting, so i tried this freezing method and the liqueur produced was excellent
*"Contemplate this on the tree of woe"* great clip!
I did a blackberry Apple Jack. I used apple cider and blackberry juice and cane sugar and cider yeast. Got it to 16% and using my deep freezer I got it almost to 80 proof. It was very smooth and not suriply and also not dry. Dry would be nice. Next time I will use brown sugar. I would drink 4 to 6 ounces of the Apple Jack at a time. I never got a hangover from it but I also drink extra water when I drink alcohol. I also don't use sulfates which can give you a hangover. What I make doesn't stay around long enough to need preservatives.
Sounds awesome!
Oh I know that hang over. Nobody told me. Super smooth.
It's freezershine
Well now I'm gonna be making Apple Jack too! I love your videos! Can't wait to see what you got coming next!
Thanks Jason!
Thanks for the heads up!
Interesting process I have never heard of this but I like it!
Thank you for sharing this video.
Thanks for watching!
Good stuff to know for the zombie apocolypse. Make a ton of apple jack. Give it to your enemies, they party with it, ne t day you go clean house while theyve got massive hangovers!
You might even be able to use it in a Zippo, I'm not sure.
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Love the Still It shirt!
OMGosh I’m salivating. Thank you. ❤
I found your channel through Still It, and I'm really glad that I did. I just started making a very small amount of apple jack, and if it turns out good, I'm probably going to start a 5 gallon batch of cider to turn into apple jack. I'm really looking forward to this.
Good luck on it:-)
@@BeardedBored I'll be sure to update with how things turn out.
Wisconsin born. Made this all the time.
You are making this with the most jank equipment I've ever seen. Props to you sir, I genuinely might try something like this
Ha ha! Then I've succeeded in proving it can be done by anybody, with almost no resources:-)>
Your the first bloke I've heard besides my dad whom mentioned fuzel oils. Aparently ethonol and methanol are considered waxes. The longer the molecular chains are, the harder it is for your liver to break down therefore it gives you a great buzz but it sozzles your brain.
Badly made moonshine you can see the oil slick on top. That is why when distilling you throw away the heads and tails removing the fuzels with it and why the process of freezing to concentrate alc does not remove them.
This is also the reason beer and wine will give you a richer pissed feeling, and why you can consume more vodka which is cleaner than rum without getting mind bendingly pissed. Aparently its the fuzels that most alcoholics are addicted too and a very clean ethonol can ween them off the booze. Or so I've heard.
Yeah, folks constantly ask about heating the AJ on the stove top to boil off the methanol and I have to tell them even if that were possible, it sort of is and isn't, the fusel oils are heavier, won't boil out and will mess you up just as bad. Everybody gets hung up on the methanol.
@@BeardedBored Yes they do. Booze making produces ethanol with a tiny fraction of methanol.
I find it impossible to believe the methanol produced in yeast brewing could possibly have a huge ill effect although thats a little irresponsible to say as it depends on how much and how regularly one drinks. Methanol is a wood alcohol I believe.
Then again when someone has drunk far too much and there overloaded the fuzels end up in your brain causing worse inflammation and thus the hangover as i understand it. Perhaps we ought not get so pissed. It's a sign. 🚫 I enjoy a drink or five but I never ever get rolling drunk there days. That happened in my early days of distilling and drinking. Blah.
@@BeardedBored the methanol comes off first at about 176f after 178 the good % will begin to boil off...
@@BeardedBored have you considered running through a charcoal filter?
@@mhprincipe That will pull out some flavor and color, but you can try it.
Wow....your video showing the hangover effects was awesome...too funny
Apple jack is famous in New Jersey, there was even something they called Liquid Glass (i think) when they ran the apple jack thru a still a second time
Cool!
I just wanted to let you know, that it is finished now and it is.....DELICIOUS!! WoW!! It really does taste sweeter on its own after all is said and done. It is also OMG STRONG but tastes FANTASTIC!! Thank you for your advise, I'm so glad I didn't add in any more sweetening as it would have definitely been wayyy too sweet. Thank you for sharing a wonderful recipe with us all!! Its thee first drink I've ever made and it is awesome!! Tytyty!! I added some black cherry extract (from Olive Nation) to 1 of the bottles and its just unbelievably excellent!!
Happy distilling!! I am sooo happy about how this turned out!! 😁😊🍻Cherrs!! 🌷
Glad it worked out:-)
I'm going to try that! Amazing video! Thank you 🙏.
I consider this video a valuable public service message, Bearded & Bored you're a scholar, gentleman and Lord willing a saint too! Thank you.
Haha, thanks Marten:-)
You taught me something today. Thanks I like the idea
Glad I could help:-)
i have zero desire to do any contemplating on the tree of woe.
LoL!
That tree of woe .... I think my butt print is embedded in it from far too many near death hangovers.
I thought he said "wool" and I watched it 3x lol
Ur talking about the tree I pee on bcs I saw it burn and I pee like snow
😂😂😂😂
I've tried this and it's all some. But then I've been making wine and meads for several years now. And have been known for taking what is leftover from racking. Place in a water bottle and freezing. Some mixing of brews wine or mead and freezing. IT always comes out amazing, but don't drink to much. It acts fast, there for a little goods a long way.
Love watching this process over and over. Just to keep things fresh on my mind.
I'm wanting to get into making wine and such.. very interesting and now something new I wanna try. Thank you!!
Have fun experimenting:-)
Some the best fun I've had with my pants on !!!
Man I loved that guitar playing....
I'm an Aussie living in a sustenance living village in Hungary. When I first came over in 2014, the neighbours invited me to a planting celebration. They had these tiny glasses, I'd never seen before and gave me the same as everyone else. It was palinka...home made...the national drink.That sip I took, tasted like lighter fluid and I lost 3hours. I have no idea what happened. I can vaguely remember being...but it took 3 hours for me to regain my senses. One sip!!! Obviously, I'm not a spirits drinker! PS...I thought apple jack was a cake!
Sounds like a fun night;-) I've never had Palinka, but I have had Slivovika, plum brandy. Very tasty and very strong stuff. I'll have to do some research on Palinka. Thanks!
thanks for showing all the steps.. always wanted to do this
Glad I could help:-)
Cheers chief! Will defo have to give this a try. Thanks for the 'how to' :)
Thanks:-)
Making my signature "Junk-puncher" cold cured Applejack now.
We have apple trees and had a huge crop last year, we peeled we diced we juiced we gave away we canned and vacuum sealed apples was trying to figure out another use other than vinegar and my neighbor mentioned hard cider so I bought some equipment and made 2 cases hard cider then I found your site and made about 2 quarts apple jack man that was good. I am making some more with apples that fell off our trees from the last storm, (not quite ready yet still a little green), but enough for pie filling and I'm trying them in some apple jack. The OGR was 1.046 a little lower than ripe 1.056 but we will see. Thanks again
Thanks for the honest video!
Thanks so much:-)
Love the clip from princess bride lol 😂
The other thing is the ice leftover, is you save it too because you never get all the jack out of it and it tastes like weak apple wine. That way you're not wasting any of it, and it does have a mild kick too.
I plan on, Monday starting a gallon and seeing how I like it (It's gonna be good.) I have apples on the trees and If it works out I will brew up 5 gallons cider, By January it will be below 0 and I can freeze it outside.
Thanks for this.
Good luck!