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  Gin Distilled Thrice

  Posted by Malin37 on July 31, 2014 at 11:08 am

  I’ll be looking at making up some gin and have been researching for awhile. I don’t want to go down the road of steeping the botanicals. I’d rather go the way of the gin head. I’ll be running it through with the botanicals in my column of my reflux still. Wondering though if anybody takes the time to triple distill?

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  NZChris

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  July 31, 2014 at 11:27 am

  All my gin is triple distilled. Twice for the base spirit, once for the botanicals.I steep, but not for long, some in the boiler some in the basket.

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  Boda Getta

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  August 1, 2014 at 6:50 am

  I always keep several gals of neutral around; I wanted to try my hand at a gin last summer. For this I used my 7.5 SS keg as a boiler with my 2″ x 30″ pot still column with propane power. I took two gals of neutral and diluted with water down around 35%. I used a fairly simple botanical mix of juniper berries, coriander seed, angelica root, orange peel and lime peel, wrapped it in cheese cloth and just rammed it down to the bottom of my column. I ran it as slow as I could and made my cuts; actually the cuts were pretty easy because the neutral was so clean. I was pleasantly surprised how well it turned out. Not as complex as some, but a very nice gin flavor with little effort.Good luck.BG

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  Malin37

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  August 4, 2014 at 3:29 am

  Thanks very much guys. Def think I will keep to the way of triple distilled. As well as keeping that low temp in mind for a more quality run.Thx and hopefully it all works out for me first time round.

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  NZChris

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  August 4, 2014 at 6:47 am

  If you use a reflux still, you would only have to use it in reflux mode to make the neutral, and there would/should be no need to distil the neutral twice.Have you seen Odin’s Easy Gin thread?

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  skow69

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  August 4, 2014 at 6:54 am

  My neutral is triple distilled. Got the idea from minime. 1-Strip run in the pot still, 2-spirit run in the VM with cuts, 3-final run in the VM, no (or very small) heads cut, shut down as soon as the temp starts to rise and ABV starts to drop. Very little reduction in volume. Surprising how much the boiler smells like tails. I’ve only made gin twice, very small batches. This idea I got from Myles. He had a very convincing arguement for why it was a good idea, but I can’t remember what it was. Anyway I put the botanicals and high test neutral in the thumper (we’re back to the pot still) and fill the boiler with water. Now the primary is a steam generator and I get a single steam injected distillation in the thumper. Collect untill all of the alcohol is recovered. No need for cuts. I’m describing it poorly (tired) but you get the idea. The results are delightful.I guess that makes it Quad dist Gin.NotVeryArticulateTonightSkowDistilling at 110f and 75 torr.I’m not an absinthe snob, I’m The Absinthe Nazi. “NO ABSINTHE FOR YOU!”

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  Malin37

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  August 9, 2014 at 12:54 am

  I have had a look thx NZCHRIS. What I feel I want to stay away from is steeping the botanicals in the neutral. I think I should be able to get a more delicate taste in doing so. Maybe I might do a small batch each way n see how things go.Sounds like SKOW69 has gone my preferred route. Don’t know that I would go 4 but the process sounds sound to me.Def looking forward to a tasting.

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