[Avodah] Selling whiskey/bourbon

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RZS:
> they're
> usually distilled to 96% purity and then watered down to 40%, so the
> chametz would indeed seem to be in a taaroves.
> Of course a taaroves chametz which is edible is still assur.

As per shaarei tshuva quoting hacham Zvi 20- and many others

WATERING DOWN alcohol is NOT a taaroves - if it's to make it palatable!
It's like watering down concentrate - or like cookng sour apples to make
them edible or like M'ziga used to be when raw wine was unpalatable.

Note: Adding juices that have their own ta'am might be very different

But dilluting 190 proof down to EG 86 proof is still construed as
"B'ayin," halachically speaking.

I cited the sources iin an earlier post

ZP
RRW
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