What is freeze distillation?
The opposite of distillation where you heat a liquid up to a temperature where the alcohol vaporizes and the water stays in the pot.
Freeze distillation means to freeze an alcoholic liquid like wine or beer (by putting it into a freezer) and the water freezes but the alcohol and some other stuff stays liquid.
So you can simply separate the alcohol and flavours from the water.
Open the bottle (or which container you used to freeze the liquid) and put it upside down into a container, the liquid part, alcohol and flavours, will drop out of the bottle and the frozen water, the ice, remains inside.
This takes some time, but don't wait until all the ice is melted.
If you want to increase the amount of alcohol in your drink, you can freeze it again and again.
One well known drink made by freeze distillation is Apple Jack.
My first experiment:
Beer Schnaps
I used
1 soft plastic bottle, 1,5 liters
2 bottles of beer, 1 liter in total, cheapest one money can buy, good enough for the first experiment
1 clean bowl which can at least hold 1 liter, better some more
1 dipper
1 cone which fits into the opening of the big plastic bottle
Make sure that the big plastic bottle is clean, you don't want the flavour of juice or coke or whatever in your drink.
Pour the beer into a clean bowl and stirr it a little bit, to get rid of most of the foam.
Then pour the beer from the bowl, a dipper might be helpful, into the big plastic bottle with the cone in it's opening.
Then let sit the bottle with beer until most of the foam is gone.
Squeeze the bottle to get rid of mostly all air inside. When the water freezes and turns into ice, it needs some space to expand, or your bottle will explode inside the freezer and cause a mess..
Thats why i use a plastic bottle with 1,5 liters for 1 liter of beer, extra space inside.
Then cap the bottle with it's cap, if some air is still left inside, that doesn't matter if there is enough space for the freezing water to expand.
Then put the bottle for some hours, or even over night, into the freezer and tomorrow we will see what the result is (I expect some strong, but without gas, evil tasting beer).
The next day
As expected mostly all liquid in the bottle was frozen.
So i opened the bottle and put it upside down in to a measuring jug and let it stay there for one hour or so.
The result was 0,32 liters of a brown liquid and light brown ice in the plastic bottle. The brown liquid tastes like a very strong and spicy beer.
So i filled another bottle with 1 liter of beer and put it into the freezer, and when i have 1 liter of brown liquid i am going to freeze that too and hopefully that increases the amount of alcohol.
To be continued...
