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Capn Ahab
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Tastes good!

Anyone know how to test the ABV???
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You're going to be grateful that was a long slow and clean fermentation with little bad alcohols.....

I'd guess at concentration ratio x original ABV less 15%
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You can test the ABV with a spirit hydrometer.

Alternatively, you can calculate it, by knowing how much water you've removed.
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It may also be ever so slightly in technical breach of HMRC law. I doubt HMRC would ever find out about it unless you were to mention it on and interwebs forum or something...
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Trunky wrote:You're going to be grateful that was a long slow and clean fermentation with little bad alcohols.....
Knew I could rely on you Trunkster.
alikocho wrote:Alternatively, you can calculate it, by knowing how much water you've removed.
Freeze distilling seems a fairly inexact science. Not everything I removed was water, in fact as the main body became more concentrated, the melt was more and more like weak cider. Drank that too!
Trunky wrote:It may also be ever so slightly in technical breach of HMRC law. I doubt HMRC would ever find out about it unless you were to mention it on and interwebs forum or something...
Really?! How can this be so? All I'm doing is drinking different bits of the one cider at different times/strengths....
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alikocho wrote:You can test the ABV with a spirit hydrometer.
Do you have one BTW? And would I need to have taken a reading prior to commencement to know what it is telling me?
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Capn Ahab wrote:
alikocho wrote:You can test the ABV with a spirit hydrometer.
Do you have one BTW? And would I need to have taken a reading prior to commencement to know what it is telling me?
No, and no.

As to the inexactness....It won't just be water that you remove, but as the alcohol won't freeze you won't take any of that out. You can then calculate the Alcohol by volume (ABV) based on where it started out.

And as to the hypothetical questions as to what if someone to do this - under the HMRC rules it would be unlicensed distilling.
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See you in Sing Sing then...
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They'll never take him alive...
I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
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