Making Spiced Rum (Journey Into Rum Part 5)
This is the fifth post in our journey in making Shakespeare Distillery’s first rum. While we were fine-tuning the production process for our white rum...
How to Make and Distil Your Own Gin Recipe
Do you ever wonder how gin recipes are crafted? In today’s post I go over the methodology behind how gin recipes are designed and why...
Making Naturally Purple Gin Liqueur
At the Shakespeare Distillery, our products had a Shakespeare theme in that the ingredients in our gins were inspired by the Tudor period (which was...
iStill Fermenter Cleaning (Journey Into Rum Part 2)
Check out the first Journey Into Rum Post Here We continued our Shakespeare rum production project by assembling and cleaning the brand spanking new 2000L...
Molasses Fermentation (Journey Into Rum Part 3)
Check out my Journey Into Rum Part 2 Post This is the third post documenting our journey to create our Shakespeare Distillery rum. This time...
Distilling Dry Gin in an iStill 250
I learned how to make the Shakespeare Distillery’s Stratford Dry Gin during my three months working there. The distillery has four core gins which are:...
How to Drink Scotch Whisky Like a Boss
Visitors at The Borders Distillery often ask us what the proper way to drink Scotch whisky is. They also ask questions such as: What type...
Alcohol Dilution- Which Type of Water Should You Use?
At the distillery in Wales, we used deionized water to dilute or cut back the gin. Many people have asked why we use deionized water...
Making Rum from Molasses (Journey Into Rum Part 1)
One of my main distilling tasks at the Shakespeare Distillery was to help develop a rum and a spiced rum recipe. Here’s our journey making...