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==================================================Although we never tried it, you can make brandy legally by "freeze distilling". Put your wine into an ice cube tray and let it start to freeze. The water will freeze first. Strain the ice crystals off, and you'll be left with a higher alcohol portion. Repeat two or three times and you'll get something like a brandy strength. (Don't let it freeze solid, or else your brandy will be trapped in the ice.)And this method avoids the danger of methyl alcohol from heat distillation.
.... Freeze distilled spirits accumulate fusel alcohols and are often referred to as rotgut because they can cause headaches, nausea, vomiting, clinical depression, or coma.....