[Avodah] Selling whiskey/bourbon

[Zev Sero]

Note: Water added before fermentation doesn't count at all.  For instance,
you can add water to grape juice before it ferments, and then after it
becomes wine you can use it to make matza ashira, and it doesn't become
chametz; but if a drop of water falls into the wine *after* fermentation
it suddenly becomes capable of making chametz in less than 18 minutes.
Indeed, I believe this applies even to raisin wine, which is water in which
raisins have been soaked!  Once it ferments it's no longer water but wine.

Similarly, it stands to reason that water added to grain before it ferments
becomes part of the fermented product and therefore itself chametz, and
can't be counted as something that dilutes the chametz.



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