cumbriandistiller

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

Jailbreak - thank you for this. That really helps and makes a lot of sense. As meerkat suggests in reduces all other variables. Will see how it goes.

Thank you Silk Distillers, so I have a good idea now on how to work out my botanical ratios but I am still confused on how to work out how much NGS you use to blend with before adding water? Is there a general formula to use? I am thinking of doing a 1:5 ratio to start

Hello Folks We have been running a micro distillery for a good while now and have now seen a large surge in orders due to some export orders. As most of you will be aware the more time I am in the distillery the less time I have to sell my products. Also I have been reading lots of blind testing results on public's feedback regarding one shot Vs multi shot gins and they found that the results showed very little difference when done well. Therefore does anyone have some simple formulas/principles to work with to convert our current one shot recipe into a multi shot recipe. I will also need instructions on how to work out how much NGS I will need to blend with before adding water to bring it down to the desired ABV before bottling. I understand people may have differing opinions whether multi shot will give a similar quality product to single shot but that's not what I am debating today. Thanks in advance for your suggestions