Americans should buy Lee Valley tools and sell back to Canadians on Ebay.

My wifes a cyder drinker, and her opinion of Canadian cider is its a weak copy of the real thing! Proper scrumpy is the READ DEAL!

Niel.

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Badger
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You realize that freeze distillation is just as illegal as having a still in the back 40.

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Luigi Zanasi

IIRC, there's a maximum limit on what a U.S. citizen can produce--had a newly arrived (relatively speaking) Italian immigrant landlord who used to make his own wine. 200 gallons a year, tax free. I had the basement apartment, and it was a real PITA getting through the crates of grapes stacked when wine-making time came. Hownell the feds think they'd stop anyone making their own brandy from that or other harder stuff, I dunno.

And how they'd track a person doing flash freezing in their 20 CF chest freezer, I also dunno. Should keep down problems with lead solder from car radiators causing poisoning, though.

But it doesn't matter to me. I quit drinking almost 20 years ago because my liver was growing faster than the rest of me.

Charlie Self "One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected." George W. Bush

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Charlie Self

snipped-for-privacy@aol.comnotforme (Charlie Self) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mb-m10.aol.com:

It's legal in most states of the USA to brew beer and make wines, hard cider etc. for home consumption. The Federal Government doesn't allow distillation of alcohol for home consumption at all. I IIRC the making of apple jack or the like (freezing an alcoholic beverage to extract the alcohol) is also illegal. The 'Ice beers' are a little different. The beer is chilled and some of the ice crystals are removed resulting in a beer with a slighty higher alcohol content and some say more flavor. I don't agree with the flavor part because you have to some flavor or taste to the beer prior to chilling it. I know several closet distillers (one is a good friend of mine:)) that distill fruit brandies and the like for their own use. Their plum and berry brandies can be truly delicious. In my experience, If a closet distiller doesn't try to sell spirits, doesn't give newspaper interviews about his hobby and generally keeps his output limited to close friends and family, the ATF will not be breaking down his door.

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Henry St.Pierre

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