23
May
May
Join us for Rum School and make your own personalised bottle of flavoured / spiced rum using our amazing range of botanicals and copper alembic stills. Expect 3 hours. Includes:
Tag Archives: Learn to distil
15
Mar
Mar
I’m often asked what is the best base spirit for gin distilling, and where to get it from. The alcohol used to make gin is typically ‘neutral’ this means it has no or very little flavour; essentially a blank canvass.
Here are my three recommendations for sourcing a quality neutral spirit for your gin making. This spirit can also be used for a variety of other botanical spirits and liqueurs such as limoncello, amaro and flavoured vodkas.
29
Jul
Jul
The warm, toasted sugar notes of rum provide an excellent canvas for new flavours to be added. And you won’t be surprised to learn that these rums are often referred to as Flavoured Rums.
What you might not know is that within this category a further distinction can be made between Spiced Rum and new comer Botanical Rum.
19
Aug
Aug
DISTILLING CRAFT GIN ISN’T JUST THE FIRING UP AND OPERATING OF A HAND-MADE STILL.
Indeed, this is very much at the heart of gin’s art, but just importantly making a craft gin is about plants, their magical properties, flavours and aromas. For me, distilling gin encompasses creativity, experimentation and science…