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Hey gang.

Are you filtering your gin prior to bottling? Or do you feel that takes away too much of the flavour?

Cheers!

Definitely NOT carbon filtering. Too much a flavor killer.
I have a fine mesh (or you can use a coffee filter) to filter the botanicals/particles out.

Why would you need to filter your gin?

Assuming you started with a clean neutral, there should be nothing you'd want to remove. If you're getting louching, add more neutral at bottling proof until it clears.

How the hell are you guys making your gin that you need to filter it.?

Saltbush Bill wrote:How the hell are you guys making your gin that you need to filter it.?

Odin's Gin. The botanicals go right into the neutral for 2 weeks maceration.

Depending on your setup and recipe you may not even need to strain the botanical before running them.

"...Prior to bottling" would suggest that it's already been run; The final gin distillate should require no filtering.

If you gin is cloudy at 40% take some neutral and up the % I normally do 43% for gin.. but 46% for most other bottling so will go upto there.

If a lot of the oil come over things can be cloudy. Just up the % a little till it goes away. Its a good thing that means you go the flavor your after.

B

Time will also clear cloudiness.

Saltbush Bill wrote:Time will also clear cloudiness.

Wish I knew that 2 years ago, I made a gin and had to keep it a 60% strength so it wouldn't cloud up

After macerating I sieve the botanicals. Put part of them in tea eggs in the boiler and part in the ginbox.
After distilling I just store the gin at 80 or 85 %ABV and dilute to 43 %. I do not mind louching, as I consider it a sign of enough taste.