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...
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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...
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...
Making Naturally Pink Gin
I learned how to make so many different products while working at the Shakespeare Distillery. One of them happened to be a naturally pink gin....
Air Still Gin Concentrates
While working at a distillery in Wales, I had the opportunity to distil numerous gins for different gin brands. Two of these gins were for...
Taking the Institute of Brewing and Distilling Diploma Exam
This year I took the first module for the IBD Distilling Diploma. And no, in this case IBD does not stand for irritable bowel syndrome,...
Multi-Shot Gin Distillation Process
During my time in the UK, I briefly worked at a contract distillery in Wales where they made gins for several gin brands. In this...