the Doctor wrote:Can recommend Austral Herbs for botanicals they are just up the road from us in Kentucky and supply all our botanicals. They are online and have everything except grains of paradise. Top supplier.
Doc
seehuusen wrote:Good morning fellow Gin Lovers :smile:
I just thought I'd follow up, with my attempt to make a Gin, only using a pot still.
I'm sure there are a few of us, who only has a pot still, and probably some wondering, like I did, is it even possible to make something decent, not a brown spirit.
I started off with 2x 23L Fast Fermenting Vodka wash, which I let sit for a fortnight. (Followed that recipe to a T)
Clear, without taking any of the yeast, I siphoned the lot into my 50L keg.
Discarding 300ml of fores here, and then taking the runnings down to 20-ish % abv.
This I then diluted to 35% and redestilled the product, getting 10 or so litres of 70%abv distillate (discarded another 150ml as fores here).
To this, I doubled the ingredients as per this thread, ground it up in a mortar and pestle.
I then let those ingredients steep for 24 hours in the distillate.
After that, I ran the whole lot, spices and all, through the still a last time. Here I discarded the first 1000ml, then collected everything until I hit about 65%abv, when I detected tails.
(I'm sure some wonder why I discarded that much, I just wanted to be closer to the hearts cut, but also knew that some flavours present them selves more from the higher abv level, and I don't like hangovers ;) )
This, for me, yields about 6 litres of finished gin, at 40%abv
The flavour is SOO good, while fresh in my mind, I've written down the changes I wanted to make for the next batch.
Thanks for sharing your recipe Blonde Chap :music-deathmetal:
bluc wrote:How did you get 10l @70% from 2x 25l washs.
nuddy wrote:Going to run this gin for the first time in the next few weeks.
Now is it preferable to run the still in a pot still configuration (no plates in) which will give me a vapour abv of around 77-80% once it hits the botanicals in the carter head.
Or should I run it as a 4-5 plater with a little reflux which will increase the vapour abv to around 90-92% once it hits the botanicals?
Will the higher abv help pull more flavour out of the botanicals but at the same time will this higher abv also lose flavour once diluted down to 40-45% drinking strength?
This is all something I will find out once up and running but I'd like to get other peoples opinions on what they think?
Cheers.
Darwin award wrote:nuddy wrote:Going to run this gin for the first time in the next few weeks.
Now is it preferable to run the still in a pot still configuration (no plates in) which will give me a vapour abv of around 77-80% once it hits the botanicals in the carter head.
Or should I run it as a 4-5 plater with a little reflux which will increase the vapour abv to around 90-92% once it hits the botanicals?
Will the higher abv help pull more flavour out of the botanicals but at the same time will this higher abv also lose flavour once diluted down to 40-45% drinking strength?
This is all something I will find out once up and running but I'd like to get other peoples opinions on what they think?
Cheers.
I'd either run higher ABV in the boiler or run plates, (assuming you've got the power to run through plates and the carter head) the tails will smear and leave a not so fantastic taste in the ass end of your run.
well, thats what happened to us.
Peregian wrote:Just completed a run of this gin....http://www.the86co.com/pdf/FordsGin-Fact-Sheet.pdf
The fact sheet gives the botanical quantities so it is easy to copy. I macerated a total of 150 grams of botanicals in 5 liters of 45% neutral (FFV).
Just divided the 150 x the botanical % on the fact sheet.
The Jasmine flavor seems a little light but that could be due to the Jasmine I purchased being a bit old, it was a dried product from the local health food store.
The botanical were macerated overnight, drained into the boiler through a muslin bag, the bag was tied off and left in the neutral during distilling
This is my second attempt at this gin, the first batch greatly improved over time.
It is extremely difficult to clone a gin when you can't source the exact same boranicals but in most cases you end up with a drinkable gin.
Peregian wrote:Just completed a run of this gin....http://www.the86co.com/pdf/FordsGin-Fact-Sheet.pdf
The fact sheet gives the botanical quantities so it is easy to copy. I macerated a total of 150 grams of botanicals in 5 liters of 45% neutral (FFV).
Just divided the 150 x the botanical % on the fact sheet.
The Jasmine flavor seems a little light but that could be due to the Jasmine I purchased being a bit old, it was a dried product from the local health food store.
The botanical were macerated overnight, drained into the boiler through a muslin bag, the bag was tied off and left in the neutral during distilling
This is my second attempt at this gin, the first batch greatly improved over time.
It is extremely difficult to clone a gin when you can't source the exact same boranicals but in most cases you end up with a drinkable gin.
Peregian wrote:Dyno, not sure if all Jasmine plants are the same, I used dried Jasmine from the local health food shop. I think it is used to make a Jasmine tea by infusing in hot water.
Might pay to do a internet search to check the different types of Jasmine.
ThePaterPiper wrote:Is the maceration done in cases where you don’t have a gun basket or carter head? Or is it that some botanicals work best from the boil and others from the vapour?
Professor Green wrote:Rosella? as in tomato sauce?
Cheers,
Prof. Green.
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