I've been developing my gin recipe using exclusively maceration (my R&D still doesn't have a gin basket), but I do have a basket for my production still and would like to use it for at least some of the ingredients. From what I've seen, vapor extraction seems to concentrate the botanicals significantly more than maceration, and I'm wondering if anyone has any tips for what that ratio might look like. Have any of you scaled a recipe in this way? Or, without getting into anything proprietary, can any of you give me some insight into the general ratio of juniper to distillate that you're using in a basket as opposed to maceration?
Thanks.