Hello,
so we haven’t made any huge leaps forward, but we did by accident double up the botanical ratio and added them to the boiler before realising. It distilled perfectly fine but with a much stronger flavour profile, as you would suspect. Therefore, we reduced some 96% NGS down to 42% which is our bottling strength for that particular product and added it 1kg at a time until we had our desired flavour that matched our single shot product. I was pleased to find that it pretty much doubled the amount of end product and I couldn’t personally tell the difference in flavour. It’s just imperative to let it rest for a good 3-5 weeks before bottling, so that the flavours come through, just as you would with a single shot gin. Otherwise it tastes very sharp on the tongue. I would imagine that the same principle would work if you tripled or even quadrupled the ratio, but like I say we haven’t taken it any further. That however, is mainly due to us not being bonded, so we have to pay the duty up front and our small distillery just doesn’t have the bank balance to have lots of NGS spare to both test this method properly and/or to have knocking around to reduce down to bottling strength.
Hope this helps