Making My Own Bottle of Gin | Miss Brewbird

I'm in the gin lab at In the Welsh Wind Distillery where I'm making my very own bottle of gin! I perused the botanical room and decided to use a cherry blossom tea blend, papaya, lime, sichuan peppercorns, pink peppercorns, and juniper berries of course! It turns out that gin making is a very simple process. First, neutral grain spirit is added to the still along with a selection of botanicals. The botanical flavours infuse into the spirit and the liquid is heated up into a vapour form. The vapour goes through a condenser where it turns back into a liquid and is collected. Lastly, the infused spirit is diluted with deionised water to bring it down to the right alcoholic strength. Voila you have gin! #gin recipe #ginbotanicals #distilling
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[@MrPovsklada]

wonderful laboratory!!!

[@ianhui3719]

Love it. A great video. It shows that new idea and experiment is the essene in creating new and desirably product. Like your creativity and daring yourself to think out of the box. After all, let us know what it is like in your later episode. Good luck Brewbird.

[@shirleysyhui]

Like to try your personalized gin with a curiosity of the taste. Thumbs up video.

[@jcims]

This was fun, the gin lab looks amazing. I recently started doing some home distillation and experimenting with gin is something that I'm very much looking forward to. I just love how quickly you get results and it's one of my favorite spirits overall.

[@MissBrewbird]

Yes its pretty fun to play around with the type and amount of botanicals you add. I'm sure you will enjoy it.☺

[@druidari]

Whoa, this was dazing to watch. Super cool. Thanks for sharing! :)

[@MissBrewbird]

Well thanks for watching!

[@jimjam738]

well done! like your content

[@MissBrewbird]

Thanks I appreciate it!

[@vishnukapoor7436]

Very creative..

[@MissBrewbird]

Hey! Nice to see you in the comments section.

[@NoNonsenseWhisky]

Good work! I'm not a gin guy, but the experience looks very interesting

[@MissBrewbird]

Thanks, yeah it's pretty fun to try

[@dansworld9635]

Great video! Thumbs-up!

[@MissBrewbird]

Thanks ☺️ always lovely to hear

[@mikasalife]

Seems like such a nice experience! Can only imagine what it would taste like!

[@MissBrewbird]

Hey, nice to see you here. It smelled a lot like cherry blossom. It tasted okay, but definitely needed some more botanicals.

[@salrodriguez6103]

what is the name or what king of still are you using? I love the way its built.

[@MissBrewbird]

It's been too long, so I don't remember the brand name. I think it was a modified kind of pot still. I don't recommend getting it. It looks very pretty, but it is very annoying to clean and put back together.

[@ignaciomalacrida4793]

i have a big question ahhah, How calculate the quanty of botanical. Be a mesure or a rule to follow? your channel is awesome
Regards from Argentina

[@MissBrewbird]

Thanks! The botanical quantities for a gin recipe are all in this video (How to Make and Distil A Gin Recipe) : th-cam.com/video/qtWNwzlrCns/w-d-xo.html

[@markeltom224]

Great video - am I allowed to ask where you got that still? Looks like a perfect size to experiment with.

[@MissBrewbird]

I'd tell you if I remembered, but I forgot! I didn't like working with that still. It was heavy and hard to work with and clean. It is very beautiful to look at though. I'd go for a small copper alembic still if I were you.

[@markeltom224]

@@MissBrewbird Awesome advice, thank you!

I don't understand the need to use the parrot.

[@MissBrewbird]

It isn't strictly necessary. I used the Snap 41 to get the %abv reading of the spirit coming off the still, but if you don't have one then you could put a hydrometer into the parrots beak to get the %abv.

[@MissBrewbird]

I didn't take a foreshots or heads cut here, but I know at some distilleries they will want to be overly cautious and take a foreshots cut even though they are using 96% NGS. Methanol is actually extremely difficult to completely separate out from ethanol which is why they do it. However, the amount would be so negligible that you could get away with not doing it.

[@MissBrewbird]

Yeah pretty much. I didn't put these stills together.