BEGINNERS’ GEMS #8: How Cool is Cool?
IN THIS BEGINNER’S Gems for Home Distillers, we discuss cooling your still’s output. Our previous Beginners’ Gems posts containing helpful hints, tips and techniques for home distillers, include the following:
How to Taste Spice Flavors in Whisky
JUST AS spices transform the act of eating from functional to pleasurable, spice flavors can enliven whisky. Baking spices in particular evoke holiday scents wafting from the kitchen, and the sensations of fresh pastries served warm from the bakery. The impression of baking spices— we’re talking mainly about cinnamon, nutmeg, star anise, clove, and allspice—adds…
BEGINNERS’ GEMS #7: Keeping it Clean
IN THIS BEGINNER’S Gems for Home Distillers, we discuss cleaning issues for your equipment. Our previous Beginners’ Gems posts containing helpful hints, tips and techniques for home distillers, include the following:
BEGINNERS’ GEMS #6: Finally Taming the Yeast Beast
HERE’S OUR SIXTH article for home distilling beginners, drawing a line under all we could find for you about yeast. Our previous Beginners’ Gems posts containing helpful hints, tips and techniques for home distillers, include the following:
VIDEO: How to Mix Global Flavors High Concentrate Essence Mixes
https://youtu.be/y_M8eBxbr9Q 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…
BEGINNERS’ GEMS #4: Solutions for Fermentation Problems
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.
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.