Water down Prestige essences?

[fjorda]

Hi all, I bought some cocorum and cherry brandy Prestige essences recently. I'm not sure if I need to dilute my 40% spirit to 20% and 25% respectively before I add my essences and sugar as mentioned on the bottle. if I don't dilute wouldn't it make a 40% coconut rum and cherry brandy which I don't really want?

Thanks

[hampk]

You are absolutely correct - you need to dilute to whatever your preferred drinking strength is. The amount of liquid in the essence bottles isn't going to have much dilution effect!

Handy calculator here : http://homedistiller.org/distill/dilute/calc

Cheers

Hampk

[fjorda]

Great thank you! Wasn't sure how much the added sugar would effect the overall percent of the drink.

[Easydrinker]

Hi there,
I have been trying Cocorum of late,now on the third bottle,I use 45% neutral(undiluted) and half the stated sugar, I lost my sweet tooth long ago.
HTH.

Robert.