In this clip from his video course, Jamie Burns of Denver’s The Family Jones Spirit House discusses his approach to layering in flavors in botanical spirits, as well as the benefits of producing different distillates and distilling in concentration for efficiency and ease of blending.
Whether you’re evaluating a new grain, prototyping a new recipe, or checking the proof of a liqueur, a lab still can be an essential tool for small distilleries. In the full-length course, available to Craft Spirits & Distilling subscribers, you’ll learn what they are, how to use them, how to scale recipes from them, how to use them for testing, and more.
Through the course, Burns covers:
- components of a lab still
- how to set up and run a lab still
- how to build recipes that scale up from a lab still to a production still
- how to use a lab still to check the proof of liqueurs
And more.