Posted on 04/21/2013 4:20:37 PM PDT by YankeeMagic
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I have some. Makes a mean Bloody Mary.
Southern Comfort, specifically.
Southern Comfort is some New Orleans bartender's idea of what a whiskey-flavored liqueur should taste like. It has more in common with Rock & Rye than with bourbon.
Before that, it was Jack Black.
Later, it was gin and tequila.
But that was all decades ago.
Ping to the Homebrewers and Winemakers List
Beat you to it, I posted reply 29!
I would be a little suspicious. The federals absolutely hate any food product that has not been pasteurized. In Europe, the bacteriophobes in the government are so extreme that they for a time demanded that cheeses like Brie be pasteurized, which of course would destroy them.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10049198
In 1996, some unpasteurized apple juice was found to be contaminated with E. coli bacteria, normally associated with meat, but attributed to a herd of deer that inhabited a large apple grove.
(N.B. Normal strains of E. coli are essential in the lower intestines, but very bad anywhere else in the body.)
As of now, the FDA only requires that unpasteurized juice be clearly labeled as such and tested frequently. Here is an interesting and detailed explanation of the rules. It even mentions ultra-pasteurization, which many healthy food types regard as an abomination, but for example results in milk that can last for months without refrigeration.
http://www.dairyengineering.com/applejuice.asp
Oh, and Simply Apple *is* pasteurized.
I have a most excellent recipe for this. Two gallons of apple juice boiled down to about one gallon. Some raisins. I use Bacardi 151 instead of everclear and also 100-proof cinnamon schnapps. Will try to post later.
You cannot distill alcohol legally without a permit from the feds, regardless of whether or not you sell any. To do so, means you are operating a distilled spirits plant.
http://www.ttb.gov/spirits/faq.shtml#s3
You may own a small still for water distillation, or to extract essential oils, and those may be up to state and local laws, but for alcohol, that's big brother.
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