Can packing be used to enhance flavor

[srains99]

This may be a foolish question but I was reading a post concerning different packing materials (lava rocks) may improve distilling but I was wondering if packing material could be used to enhance the flavors of the product. I have copper scrubbers but what if I unrolled some and filled them with charred oak, walnut shells, rock candy or something else that would allow the scrubbing (perhaps a little less effective) to take place while at the same time adding flavor. Of course air still has to be able to pass through the scrubbers.

Just wondering thanks

[myles]

You are trying to combine different processes. Packing typically removes flavour because it is an aid to fractionating the components in the wash. You are discussing ADDING in other flavours that were not in the original wash. Nothing wrong with that but it should be kept separate. That is a small part of the concept of the coffey still. Produce the clean vapour and then pass it through a basket containing botanicals.

[srains99]

myles thank you. I will do more research for now and perhaps some experiments in the future.

I apologize it I posted this in the wrong section. I will be more careful in the future.

[myles]

myles thank you. I will do more research for now and perhaps some experiments in the future.

I apologize it I posted this in the wrong section. I will be more careful in the future.

Right section What I meant was keep the 2 processes separate. Produce the clean vapour and THEN add the flavour to it. It is much easier and repeatable. Think about gin. You produce a clean neutral base alcohol first, which you then re-distill (in various ways) to get the flavour into it.