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 ....
> >>
> >

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David McNeely