Current herbal experiments

[boognish]

I have been working on a little project which I thought I would share here with you all. I am in the process of distilling 20 something herbs and plan to order more in addition. Fun stuff. Basically what I do is take an oz of spice, herb, fruit, etc and macerate it in 120 proof for a week and then strain and resolute to 80 proof distill off. It gives me a baseline for using them and engineering a recipe for whatever. I have been very intrigued by how they are turning out.

Eventually I will use the distilled essences to titrate and blend to calculate recipes. Anybody have any suggestions for herbs to experiment with?

[Simple Man Distillery]

Oh wow.  Happy tenth anniversary of your post.  Did you macerate all your botanicals for the same amount of time?  There can be strong and weak ones that may need variation, IMHO.