• Gin

  Expansion in Size

  Posted by pajo on August 14, 2014 at 1:36 pm

  Thanks to the advice and help of good citizens on this forum, we are making great headway with formulating our gin. So I have a question, when we have to scale up the final recipe a hundred fold, what are the potential pit falls?

  jake holshue replied 10 years, 4 months ago 5 Members · 4 Replies
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  leftturndistilling

  Member

  August 14, 2014 at 3:06 pm

  Ive seen that the scale up for botanicals is not 1 to 1 …. Takes a lot of experimenting …. Be prepared to use a lot of botanicals … My Load for a 40 gallon batch is about 8 -9 lbs ,,,,

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  tl5612

  Member

  August 15, 2014 at 6:12 pm

  scaling up… just be prepared for some dud batches. things may change dramatically: for the worse, or the better. think more art than science.

  in terms of botanical mass. that varies significantly depending maceration strength and time period (and botanical form e.g. ground/dried/fresh/whole).

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  natrat

  Member

  August 18, 2014 at 9:21 pm

  Concur with previous posters. I found that extending my maceration time helped cut down on botanical usage for a few of them, but others were different. It seems like each botanical scales in a different way, so the ratio at a 10 gallon batch is completely different from a 100 gallon batch is completely different on a 1000 gallon batch. Important thing is to have plenty of the “goal” batch on hand, to compare.

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  jake holshue

  Member

  August 19, 2014 at 4:34 pm

  Its definitely not 1 to 1, especially if you have some potentially potent botanicals in small numbers now. Gin is definitely a drum set- you need everything in proportion. Best of luck!

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