Home Distiller

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

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

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.