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ProfessorGAC

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7. I Don't Believe It

Reply to mikelewis (Reply #5)

Fri Jul 25, 2025, 06:15 PM

Jul 25

As a PhD chemist who has actually done fractional crystallization, I don't believe one would get the efficiency with household apparati.
Besides, adding the cost of the wine & the milk, it would be cheaper just to buy vodka.
A whole bottle of wine has around ounces of alcohol. The milk costs something, and because alcohol/water formation a liquid azeotrope, some partition during freezing would be an alcohol/water phase, so it's not pure alcohol.
You're cutting & pasting about FC to lecture someone who has been an expert in the field since the mid-70s.
You're out over your skis here.

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Did you know it's illegal to pour milk into wine... [View all] mikelewis Jul 24 OP

This post should be in the DU Fiction forum Ptah Jul 24 #1

Huh? ProfessorGAC Jul 24 #2

Ah... see... mikelewis Jul 25 #5

I Don't Believe It ProfessorGAC Jul 25 #7

I love DU so much! Laffy Kat Jul 24 #3

You remind me of this little gem from Prohibition. OldBaldy1701E Jul 24 #4

This is technically called applejacking... they used to use cider... but I figures wine would do just as good :) nt mikelewis Jul 25 #6