"Off The Fruit"

Mr.  X and I took our plum wine -- soon,  hopefully,  to be plum brandy -- "off the fruit"last night.  This just means that we removed the fruit from the mixture and poured off the yeast,  mostly stopping fermentation.

While we stopped to sample each,  we're going to be aging them a bit while we acquire a still and hope to be distilling them into brandy in a matter of weeks.