Hi all
I'm going to try something new to me - to blend my gin instead of doing it my usual way ( one-shot gin ).
So a juniper base, a coriander base, an apple base, a citrus base etc - and then do the blending.
Does anyone here do it this way?
One of my worries is, that several of the components will not blend correctly, as they have not formed a love for each other in a nice warm bath.
As we all know, they spend 5 weeks to bond.
But, this would make the development of new interesting gin's easier.
So any thoughts before I go ahead sunday ?
advice please: - Blending the gin instead of one shot gin
Moderator: Site Moderator
Re: advice please: - Blending the gin instead of one shot gin
So no one have any idea about this ?
- Saltbush Bill
- Site Mod
- Posts: 9736
- Joined: Thu Mar 17, 2011 2:13 am
- Location: Northern NSW Australia
Re: advice please: - Blending the gin instead of one shot gin
I know that at least one commercial distillery here in Australia was running " Gin Classes" where they did it that way......dunno if they still do.
Almost did one of the classes once.
Almost did one of the classes once.
Re: advice please: - Blending the gin instead of one shot gin
I make some essences, not all. I don't bother doing separate essences of ingredients that are always going to be together in the finished gin.
Re: advice please: - Blending the gin instead of one shot gin
We decided not to go that way - at least all the way.
So the idea is this
Doing a simple gin without citrus, so 3 ingredients basically
And then go the essence way, to see what can be done, so we don't have to do a batch of 20 liters, just to find out it sucks.
Hoping by having a simple gin base, and then playing around with essence ( or heavy flavour based vodka ) - we can figure out how to make new fun stuff.
This is fuelled by my starving brain - Covid has been hard on me. Lost my job, not seen any friends or experienced anything but my white boring walls at home. So need to try out a bunch of weird things and hopefully get a bit drunk in the progress
So the idea is this
Doing a simple gin without citrus, so 3 ingredients basically
And then go the essence way, to see what can be done, so we don't have to do a batch of 20 liters, just to find out it sucks.
Hoping by having a simple gin base, and then playing around with essence ( or heavy flavour based vodka ) - we can figure out how to make new fun stuff.
This is fuelled by my starving brain - Covid has been hard on me. Lost my job, not seen any friends or experienced anything but my white boring walls at home. So need to try out a bunch of weird things and hopefully get a bit drunk in the progress
- Saltbush Bill
- Site Mod
- Posts: 9736
- Joined: Thu Mar 17, 2011 2:13 am
- Location: Northern NSW Australia
Re: advice please: - Blending the gin instead of one shot gin
If you need to make 20L to find out if you have made a mistake....then you need to build a smaller dedicated gin still......something that holds just a couple of L
Re: advice please: - Blending the gin instead of one shot gin
This is probably best done at essence strength, because adding the other essences will dilute your main three. I use 5* the botanicals for the base gin. E.g. for an OEG style, I would use 60g of Juniper, rather than 12g. Use your finest neutral to dilute the intensity back to where you want it, or where it doesn't louche at your desired proof.
As Bill said, you're best playing this game with a mini still.