>>476788
Around 20%abv the yeast just cant take it, you can get certain strains that can survive the burning alcohol hell up to like 23%abv maybe, but at the cost of a lot of flavor. So in a week I can usually get a brew up to around 15%abv thats easy, but that last five percent will take another three weeks, about a month to brew totally dry (all sugar gone). I usually dont brew totally dry, just for reasons of flavor, but sometimes thats what your going for. Now you leave that out in the winter, or stick some in a soda bottle in your freezer, and the alcohol will stay a liquid, but the water will freeze, this is a very easy distillation process known as jacking, that will give you applejack if you use cider or some other jack if your base alcohol is different. Applejack is infamous for producing apple palsy, a kind of hangover so intense men would shuffle like zombies, infamously during the revolutionary war washington left his supply of jack in a town the brits captured, and when he came back for it the next day the limey pricks were crawling through the streets completely unmanned by american Liquor.
Shit I went off an a tangent. What was my point.