Making Gin

4/16/2019

To make gin you first need to start with really clean neutral.
Make a double distilled spirit http://www.duckdistilling.com.au/blogpost/double-distillation
Instead of proofing down to 40% you can leave at 95% OR for super clean spirit you can proof down to 40%, carbon filter and then distill back up to 90+%

Heres my Gin recipe

1.75L 94% neutral (90-95% neutral will work)
30g Juniper
1 cardamon pod
1.35g grapefruit zest
0.70g lime zest
1.3g lemon zest
1g licorice root
1.4g coriander seeds
.27g fennel seed
2 almond
0.5g cinnamon quill
0.7g Nutmeg
3 Peppercorns
All whizzed up in a coffee grinder (except the citrus zest). I soak all the botanicals in the neutral alcohol for exactly 12hours. Then it is diluted with water to 4L (40% abv from memory) and chuck the whole lot in the still.
Discard the first 15ml and keep the next 2L. The first 15mL contains harsh juniper oils Dilute to 45%

Good to drink straight away but the flavour melds a bit over to coming weeks.

Recipe can be scaled up, just multiply everything.

13 Comments

Tash

2/26/2020 11:48:39 pm

Hi I am looking to make gin and wanted to confirm the following:

- I am looking to double distil, I have done my first run and intend to add botanicals via vapour infusion in the second distilling phase can you confirm for me

- what % I should dilute to;
- at what point should I filter on the first or after the 2nd distilling; and
- I am using a T500 so does it matter how much you distil in the second run as I am currently experimenting with my flavours and did not want to use all my base alcohol

Your help for this would be greatly appreciated

Duck Distilling

2/27/2020 01:40:28 am

Hi Tash,

You want 95% neutral to soak your botanicals and you want clean neutral (ie carbon soaked).

I would distill to 95%
Dilute to 45% and filter
Distill back to 95%
Make gin with this.

You don't have to do this as gin botanicals will hide a lot of off flavours. The cleaner your base neutral the better it will taste. Plus you can make a lot of base neutral and then just little bits once its all made up.

If you follow the above recipe it will give you the proper % to start distilling. The hanging basket for the t500 doesnt work that well, i'd just follow the recipe and remove the saddles from the condenser to make a sturdy maceration gin.

As long as there is something covering the element by the time you FINISH distilling you'll be fine. The t500 element is flush with the bottom so youll be ok.

Happy stilling!

3/1/2020 10:48:11 pm

Hi
Thanks so much for your reply, re soaking the botanicals and then putting the whole lot back through again, is there any issue with them potentially burning or sticking in the T500

Also on a different note re filtering as I wasn’t sure whether to do it after the first distilling or the second it has been sitting around without filtering at this stage (stripping stage prior to second distilling), does that matter if I now filter it?

3/2/2020 01:36:51 am

Hey Tash,

The botanicals shouldn't burn to the bottom. I've don't it a lot and never had the issue. If you follow the instructions you shouldn't have any issues.

As for filtering. Distil once, cut to 45 and filter. Then distill again up to 95% then use this neutral for the recipe

Donna Thomson

7/22/2020 12:07:28 am

I have the T500, do I need to remove the saddles once I redistill after soaking the herbs etc for 12 hours.

Kev Kenyon

3/6/2023 06:54:22 am

I removed half the saddles and used some rolled up fine copper mesh, then put muslin stretched over the top not touching the wash then put 200 grams of juniper berries on this & clamped the lid on & run

Troy

3/11/2021 12:24:59 pm

Hi Luke,
Awesome recipe and makes some great gin from what Im told....Do you run your still at a lower power when doing the final spirit run? I have a voltage controller but not sure if I should use it or run at full power?

Neil Sutherland

10/12/2022 10:46:58 pm

Love your gin recipe guys, I'm having a lot of fun with it. Many thanks for the great website and info. Cheers

Darelle link

11/25/2022 04:16:01 pm

Hi there,

If you want to get much more of the constituents released from the botanicals reduce the starting alcohol concentration so that after everything is added you're at around 70%. Some water will be added from the botanicals themselves. A BSc majoring in biochemistry and chemistry has its uses ... except for getting rich .. haha.

Paul

5/12/2023 04:58:27 pm

Hi Duck
I’m new as well to making Gin.
I have a Turbo 500 and have made a few batches of spirit and will carbon filter then double distill it to 90-95 %.
I have a few questions that I need to clarify please.
1.After I soak the botanicals in the 95 % alcohol can I use the Turbo 500 with the standard condenser tower to re distill ?
2. Do I have to remove saddles from the tower ?
3. I was told I need a Copper dome Anembolic copper dome to distill the botanicals.
4. Will you have botanicals for sale in the near future?

Thank you for your help
Cheers
Paul

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