[Avodah] Selling whiskey/bourbon

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

R' Rich Wolpoe wrote:

> 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.

I don't know if it is still made, but when I was in Eretz Yisrael, there was a product sold called "mitz anavim meshuchzar" - reconstituted grape juice, made from grape juice concentrate which was then watered down to normal strength. As I recall, there was a machlokes on the bracha, whether it should be hagafen (which would seem to follow what RRW wrote here), or whether the abundance of water would make it shehakol.

I don't know which poskim held which way, or what sources they used to bolster their views. I'm just suggesting that it might be relevant to the current issue.

Akiva Miller

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