How to make Gin at home
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- How to make a distilled gin at home using a small copper still, with a recipe you can enjoy and adapt to your own preferences.
This gin recipe is distilled in one go and the method kept simple but without cutting corners so that you can go from your raw ingredients to a finished gin in about an hour and a half and have a really great flavourful gin all of your own.
I have a great recipe for Gin Chocolate Truffles which I will make a video about and post soon I hope.
I take you through the process, flavours and technique but also cover a little about licensing, legality and safety too at the end of the video.
Please enjoy sensibly and do further research to make sure you are working legally and safely.
Full recipe listed bellow.
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Video Timestamps -
00:00 About the process
01:03 The flavours & ingredients
3:10 Distilling vs Compound Gin
3:55 The equipment
4:48 The recipe
8:11 Serving the gin
8:35 Legality and safety
10:10 More advanced methods
Recipe For 1 Litre Gin -
1 Litre Neutral Alcohol at 45% (either a neutral grain alcohol or vodka - duty paid)
32g Juniper
18g Dried Lemongrass
14g Dried Meadowsweet
10g Dried Chamomile
9g Coriander seeds - lightly crushed
7g Dried Elderflower
6.5g Dried Woodruff
5g Lightly cracked black pepper
4g Dried Orange Peel
2g Dried Lemon Peel
1.5g Orris Root Powder
1g Sichuan Pepper
Please check your local laws and rules on distillation and make sure you can do this safely before attempting this.
Add the alcohol and botanicals into the still.
Gently heat on 50-60% power (be careful and you you may have to adapt for different stills / heaters).
Once the temperature in the still reaches 78C the alcohol should begin to distil.
Discard the first 10ml of distillation.
Then collect the next 600ml of distillation to use to make our gin (increase the tmereature of the still a little if necessary as the distillation progresses).
Dilute the the 600ml of collected distillation back down to 40-45% ABV.
You should end up with approximately 1 litre of finished gin.
You can drink the gin straight away but it will be best once it has been able to settle for 2-3 days ideally. - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
I am currently making a homemade kowenwijn. That's the higher grade of genever (Dutch gin) which typically has at least 51% malt-derived alcohol. Mine is 100% malt, made from a Munich malt mash. I double-distilled that and proofed down to 40% ABV. Then I separated it in 3 parts: one part I kept as is, one part I am currently infusing with some American white oak blocks (medium toast, light char) and the third part will be infused with botanicals and redistilled once the oak infusion is done. Then finally all 3 parts will be combined together. For the botanicals I will do a mixed distillation: some pre-infused in the alcohol and some will be vapor-distilled using a gin basket. My secret ingredient are the juniper berries, which I hand-picked in Sardinia last year and find them to be superior to the ones I can buy locally. :)
Found it :) would you know if its possible to extract flavours if the forest, or at least the smells? Pine cones, moss after rain, pine needle. Basicslly like a spring early mornignhn forest walk in a glass
Recently attended a Gin making experience locally and definitely want to try more as the gin I made was pretty good. Your video is a great simplified reminder and thoroughly informative. Thanks. Will be watching more 😁
Fantastic recipe
you deserve more likes! well done vid!
Great video! You are awesome at explaining
Thank you so much
another grand video...thanks Eddie
accidentally hammered 😃
Congrats Eddie, you've got 10k subs!🥳👑
Aw thanks. Yeah it feels like an exciting milestone to reach :)
Hi Eddie!! Your videos are very interesting!! A thousand thanks!! I would like to try your gin once!!! Best regards Alex from Italy
Thanks! 😃
My husband bought me a 5 liter copper distill so that l can start making my own gin. I live in the USA , l have taken a class in the UK ( l am British Born( , but l have never learnt how to set the distill up & what plastic pipes l need. Do you have a video on the process ? Ty
Amazing video! (as usual)
I really would love to get that little distillery pot, where did you get it?
You can get similar ones here. They are great fun to work with - www.copper-alembic.com/en/
Great video ! Simon from Alchemist Distiller, here in Canada. Next time : Absinthe distillation ;-)
Oooo I’d love to try absinthe distilling and love any tips if you’ve done it
Thanks for this great video, what do you think about distilling herbs and flowers using "vapour stream steam" instaed boiling, becasue they are delicate?
Yes anything delicate I think you would ideally want to put in a basket if you have a still that has the ability to have one. I actually have a cold vacuum distiller that I have done some videos on, which is how I distil all my delicate herbs and flowers at low temperature, but for most people, steam basket would be probably the best option.
Thank you. The video is very helpful especially as we are about to have a go at our first gin distilling at home (we did attend a class at a distillery to get us up to speed before buying our own still). One question for you... Which refractometer do you use? A search throws up so many options so a recommendation from you would be very helpful. Thanks!
I cant find the link for mine but it was a fairly cheap option.
@@EddieShepherd - no problem :) I found one on Amazon and it seems to work well!
Hello. Very curious to explore gin distillation. Couple questions - what do you use to dilute the gin? Also where do you get neutral grain alcohol. Thanks!!
Hi, so to dilute the gin to the appropriate finished strength you can just use filtered water. Buying neutral grain alcohol will depend on the county you are in, for larger amounts you need to be able to provide your rectifiers licence number often but also in the UK 'Masters of Malt' stock smaller amounts for home use.
Could not find the link for the equipment? Could you please link in a comments :)
sorry yes I've just added it to the video description, you can get them here - COPPER STILLS LIKE MINE CAN BE BOUGHT HERE - www.copper-alembic.com/en/products/
Where can I purchase this small cooper still??
You can get similar ones here - www.copper-alembic.com/en/
i see that all botanical are dry, is there a reason why you do not use fresh ones?
Fresh and dry ingredients all behave slightly differently during distillation. There are other gins I make with other methods where I use fresh zest but for this the flavour of Dry works better and becomes surprisingly fresh and vibrant during the distillation.
Having watched this and the vacuum distillation video, could you not make the argument that this process is more or less extracting the essential oils from botanicals using a NGA base? Could you not achieve the same effect by adding food grade essential oils to your NGA?
There's similarities between distillation and making essential its for certain ingredients, citrus oils can be made through distillation with higher amounts of fresh citrus zest, but there's lots of other complex volatile aromatics in the gin which dont behave in the same way. It might be interesting to play about with, and you could experiment with adding essential oils into a spirit, but I think it would be difficult to produce a good gin that way.
Will this get me drunk if I make this at Home?
Absolutely shit-faced
I suggest coriander, because real gin doesn’t have only juniper but always the pair of juniper and coriander!
Also: Angelica is known to fix aromas. You need just a very little bit, but because of its characteristics it is in most gins.
Most importantly: buy an airstill. It won’t be more expensive but not as romantic, but it is really easy to clean, doesn’t scorch, it doesn’t need a heating source nor a pump; it is plug and play- just an amazing peace of equipment! It can even be operated inside (copper pot still can be dangerous in non ventilated rooms!)
Yeah there is coriander in the recipe. I’m a big fan of the classic pairing with juniper. On this recipe oris does the job Angelica can also do of fixing the aromatics. But I do like Angelica too.
Yeah I’ll definitely have a look at the air stills. They sound cool
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