The Different Ways To Make Gin: Extraction And Production!Posted by Michael Griffin on October 14th, 2019 Before getting into the technical stuff about the production of gin, it is worth defining what is gin first! To be called what is gin, the spirit must have a predominant flavor of juniper. Gin in colorado, have one thing which is common in all the different styles of its production. Any Gin starts its life first a neutral which is often grain-based spirit. It’s essentially pure ethanol, and then the flavors are added through a process called re-distillation. The Methods of Distillation: There is not one but various methods of distillation, where each can be used to create different flavors of gin. Broadly speaking about it, there are two most common and major forms for extracting flavors from botanicals that are:
Every Gin Has Its Unique Recipe: This is not the only one where botanical flavors make their way into a specific gin, which affects its flavor. Every gin is made to a specific recipe with specific numbers and weight of different botanicals.
It is the job of the distiller to ensure the botanicals are used in gin are treated in a way where results are in the same flavored product, despite using different crops of berries or herbs over the course of a brand’s particular time. Variance does occur naturally, so this is the up to the distillery to taste a number of samples from which each crop of the botanical ensures the consistency of the flavor. New Gin Production Methods Are On The Rise! Considering the recent years, there has been a rise in the methods of production of gin, which are more unusual, as the producers try to develop new and unique styles of flavors to push into the category and find a niche for the need of trying new methods of extraction of flavors as well as to use more unusual botanicals which have now fully grown.
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