Tinctures

[Bryan1]

G'Day Guy's,
Last year after going to a local property where they had an open day I was asked after the guy had a taste of my AG whisky if I do a benedictine run.

Well after doing some research getting the sweat of 4 old monks was out of the question so put down some herbs and spices with some 90% to make some tinctures. Each week i would decanter the liquid and put them into a stubbie I use for my homebrew and when I had enough I put each stubbie in my glass lab still with a stubbie of water and did a spirit run of each one in order to get a true herb and spice spirit to blend and make the drink.

Now when I did my Pastis/Ouzo run

10 grams of star anise
15 grams of homegrown licorice root
50ml of the black pepper spirit
30ml of the cinnamon spirit

5 litres of 40% neutral and run thru thru my 5 litre pot still.

So let have a talk about herb and spice goodness where a tincture is used then distilled back into a spirit for a true herb and spice spirit that one can use for later projects.

I do plan to get some juniper berries and do the tincture/ spirit run the do a blend and run it thru my pot still and just see how it turns out.

Cheers Bryan

[StillerBoy]

Herbal tinctures are made to extract herbal properties, and are not distilled after they have been macerated for 1 - 2 months, but filtered, and 50% abv base is used, and I've been making herbal tincture and liniment for over 40 yrs..

Where as pastis is a process similar to making gin, and are distilled after macerating the herbs for a few days..

Here are a few thread on pastis which the one I use mostly..

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=69150

viewtopic.php?f=108&t=87347

Mars

[Bushman]

Definition in our glossary:
Tincturing Flavoring liqueurs by soaking flavorful ingredients in already distilled alcohol. Tincturing tends to make the alcohol sweeter than those distilled.