And to applejack, calvados, or whatever your local name is for a brandy-like drink made from a base of hard cider. My gran used to freeze-distil it by leaving a barrel of her scrumpy-equivalent out in frosty weather. When it had frozen as much as it was going to (water freezes much better than alcohol), she would knock a hole in the ice on top, ladle out the concentrated liquor to age it in another smaller oak barrel, and let the ice melt back into what was now soft (nearly non-alcoholic) cider. Two drinks for not much more than the work of one.
