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billb
 
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Default How do you fortify wine?

probably a LOT cheaper to half freeze it and filter out the slush.

I think that's no doubt illegal if you live in a "free" country such as the
United States of America.

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"Gary Flye" > wrote in message
om...
> Treetoad,
>
> Droopy is right, you should use the Pearson's Square to make the
> calculation. My personal advice, though, is to use grain alcohol, rather
> than vodka. Vodka is 40% alcohol (80 proof), but grain acohol is 95%

acohol
> (190 proof). The primary benefit of using grain alcohol is that less

volume
> is needed, therefore, there is less dilution of your wine, and therefore
> more of the original wine character is preserved.
>
> Regards,
>
> Gary
>
> http://home.carolina.rr.com/winemaking/
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>
> "treetoad" > wrote in message
> oups.com...
> > If you have a wine with low total alcohol, say 10%, and wanted to raise
> > it up a couple % using 70 or 80 proof vodka, short of trial and error,
> > is there an EASY mathmatecal solution for a 5 gallon carboy? I'm sure
> > there must be some kind of a formula.Thanks.
> >

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