HERE'S OUR SIXTH article for home distilling beginners, drawing a line under all we could find for you about yeast.
Category Archives: Distilling
VIDEO: How to Mix Global Flavors High Concentrate Essence Mixes
AS MORE and more home distillers from outside of Australia become Global Flavors customers, our tastemeister Keith Emms has developed a way to concentrate our range of spirit essences for shipping overseas from Australia.
“It’s a matter of cutting down shipping costs,” says Keith.
BEGINNERS’ GEMS #5: Even More Solutions for Fermentation Problems
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:
NEW & EXCLUSIVE: 250ml DOUBLE STRENGTH Liquid Toasted Oak Smoke for Home Distillers
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 & Scotch, Keith decided it was time to add a truly premium liquid smoke to the range.
BEGINNERS’ GEMS #4: Solutions for Fermentation Problems
REVIEW: Michter’s Single Barrel Bourbon 10 Years Old 2019
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.
The Emerging World of American Agave & Sotol Spirits
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.
Is This Really the World’s Oldest Whiskey?
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.
Distiller Cuts: Separating the Heads, the Heart, and the Tails
Waterford Distillery’s Head Brewer Neil determines when to make the cut / Photo Credit: Waterford Distillery
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.
