Scaling Up

[Pajo]

Thanks to the advice and help of good citizens on this forum, we are making great headway with formulating our gin. So I have a question, when we have to scale up the final recipe a hundred fold, what are the potential pit falls?

[leftturndistilling]

Ive seen that the scale up for botanicals is not 1 to 1 .... Takes a lot of experimenting .... Be prepared to use a lot of botanicals ... My Load for a 40 gallon batch is about 8 -9 lbs ,,,,

[tl5612]

scaling up... just be prepared for some dud batches. things may change dramatically: for the worse, or the better. think more art than science.

in terms of botanical mass. that varies significantly depending maceration strength and time period (and botanical form e.g. ground/dried/fresh/whole).

[Natrat]

Concur with previous posters. I found that extending my maceration time helped cut down on botanical usage for a few of them, but others were different. It seems like each botanical scales in a different way, so the ratio at a 10 gallon batch is completely different from a 100 gallon batch is completely different on a 1000 gallon batch. Important thing is to have plenty of the "goal" batch on hand, to compare.

[Jake Holshue]

Its definitely not 1 to 1, especially if you have some potentially potent botanicals in small numbers now. Gin is definitely a drum set- you need everything in proportion. Best of luck!