IN OUR FIFTH article for home distilling beginners, we answer even more questions regarding the fermentation process. Our previous Beginners’ Gems posts containing helpful hints, tips and techniques for home distillers, include the following:
HOW BIG is a barrel? Or a hogshead, or a butt? Casks play a big part in the making of some of the most famous wines and spirits in the world, but navigating what they are can be confusing. With many different types and sizes in use, each with its own name, how can you…
ANOTHER RECIPE from our Drinkers Gotta Eat series is this powerful smokey barbecue sauce straight from Keith’s kitchen to you. This sauce features Global Flavors’ new Double Strength Liquid Toasted Oak Smoke… the only liquid smoke product you’ll ever need.
IT TOOK some doing, but Global Flavors Tastemeister Keith Emms has finally sourced and developed an outstanding world-class liquid smoke – Global Flavors 250ml DOUBLE STRENGTH Liquid Toasted Oak Smoke for Home Distillers. Following the successful combo of Global Flavors’ Genuine USA Toasted Premium Oak Chips and their Liquid Oak Premium Oak Extract for Bourbon…
IN OUR FOURTH article for home distilling beginners, we answer more questions regarding the fermentation process. Our first article in this series is HERE, our second article is HERE and our third article is HERE.
WHILE MICHTER’S is made from sourced whiskey, there’s nonetheless a certain nostalgia that the company’s 2019 Single Barrel Bourbon is the last bottling that will be released from Master Distiller Pamela Heilmann. Up next is Master Distiller Dan McKee, whose inaugural bottling is the 2019 release of Michter’s 10 Year Old Rye.
Experience-based Flavour Method By Home Distillers Club member “Zapper” ONE OF the ongoing challenges home distillersface — whether traditional craftsmen or Neutral spirit and essence flavours experts — is to replicate a particular commercial brand taste. In this case, Facebook Group Home DIstillers Club member “Zapper” has been experimenting to replicate the taste of the…
THE POPULARITY of agave spirits from Mexico is booming here in the United States. As a result, opportunistic distillers have begun producing their own American-made renditions. But tequila and mezcal have geographic indicators which limit production to certain states in Mexico.
WHAT IS the oldest bottle of whiskey in existence? According to a recent listing by the folks at Guinness, it’s a bottle of Baker’s Rye, an 1847 Monongahela Rye owned by Los Angeles Whiskey Society founder Adam Herz. Yes, you read correctly; this whiskey was distilled during the Polk administration.
COMPARED TO the gobsmacking insanity of our daily micro-verse, the ancient art of distillation remains refreshingly simple. It serves as our modern alchemy and is far more delicious than turning lead into gold.
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