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making your own cognac...?
If you took a good, unflavored brandy (say E & J), and poured it into a glass jar full of oak chips and sealed it up for a couple years...would you have cognac?
lol inthekitchen, but don't forget cognac is brandy aged in oak barrels. using oak chips instead increases the surface area of the wood.
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- inthekitchenLv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
No.You'd have a jar of wasted brandy with wood floating in it.
- injanierLv 79 years ago
E&J brandy is already aged in oak barrels. There is more to the aging process than just adding oak flavor, because the barrels breathe, letting some spirit evaporate, and perhaps absorbing some flavors from the environment.
Also, cognac is a French brandy that meets specific requirements as to region, grapes, and processing. You can't turn E&J brandy into cognac any more than you can turn jack Daniels into Scotch.
- Anonymous9 years ago
Technically speaking, all Cognac must be made in the Cognac area of France by a specific process. Anything else, made anywhere else is just brandy.
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognac
