My way knowingly removed the alcohol and then the water. The alcohol was to be added back in immediately and the water at the campsite or on the trail. 

Jim

> On Apr 24, 2014, at 8:40 PM, <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:
> 
> Hmmmm .... .  Doing it your way, you'd get a wine concentrate, but that would include no alcohol, which evaporates at a lower temperature than does water.  Oh well.
> 
> ---- Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM> wrote: 
>> Years ago the Felder Enterprises Consumables Division put some nice Cab on
>> the stove and simmered it to almost a solid, figuring I could backpack with
>> the gel and some PGA and reconstitute it into wine with local water
>> filtered along the trail. Turned out that endeavor, like so many Vanagon
>> projects, was way more complex than originally thought. I hope these
>> Palcohol guys can nail it.
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Rocket J Squirrel <
>> camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Well, if it's a Real Thing then I will be (a) hornswoggled, and (b)
>>> pleased.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
>>> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
>>> Bend, Ore.
>>> 
>>>> On 04/24/2014 04:42 PM, Rob wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> At  4/24/2014 05:55 PM,Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Please forgive -- this is best suited for Friday but I won't be able to
>>>>> post on Friday and I have a burnin' desire.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Unless you've been living on Mars this past week, you've heard about
>>>>> "Palcohol" <http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/21/palcohol/> purported to
>>>>> be "Powdered Alcohol."
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> A 10 second search with google turned this up.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_powder
>>>> 
>>>>>> According to food chemist Udo Pollmer of the European Institute of
>>>> Food and Nutrition Sciences in Munich, alcohol can be absorbed in
>>>> cyclodextrins, a sugar derivate. In this way, encapsuled in small
>>>> capsules, the fluid can be handled as a powder. The cyclodextrins can
>>>> absorb an estimated 60 percent of their own weight in alcohol.[1] A US
>>>> patent was registered for the process as early as 1974.[2]<<
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Rob
>>>> vwrobb@gmail.com
>>>> Volkswagen Enthusiast ....
> 
> --
> David McNeely