Distillers

Distillation and rectification recipes, calculators and a batch journal for home distilling.

1. Wash

   Ferment sugar, grain or fruit into a wash, and check the gravity before it goes anywhere near the still.

2. Stripping run

   Boil the wash down to a low-proof spirit in one pass, with no cuts yet.

3. Spirit run

   Redistill the stripped spirit and split it into foreshots, heads, hearts and tails.

4. Rest and dilution

   Dilute the hearts to drinking strength by mass, not by a simple ratio, then let it rest.

5. Aging

   Age on oak chips or in a barrel, and track how much the angels take each year.