How to make your own gin Add approximately one ounce of juniper berries to a 750 ml container of vodka, using the funnel. Cap the bottle and shake it. Add your botanical ingredients 24 hours later. Geneva and gin became very popular in Great Britain in 1689, when William of Orange became the king of England.
Leaving solid materials or sediment in the water from the gin puree will cause problems with the distillation phase. Now enjoy different dry gin or endrine cocktails responsibly and welcome to the beginner gin makers club. Botanical ingredients are compounds that will differentiate your gin from other spirits, such as vodka and illegal alcohol. By precisely identifying where acetone stops and ethanol starts, a distiller will maximize the number of bottles of high-quality product it collects.
First, you'll simply need to test the current alcohol percentage of your gin distillate with your breathalyzer. If you follow this tutorial guide, you've officially gone from Googling “How to Make Gin” to actually making gin. After collecting the gin distillate (hearts), the next step is to dilute it to the desired percentage of ABV (alcohol by volume). If the liquid turns blue, this is because the iodine has reacted with the starches that are still in the gin puree.
Finally, after diluting the gin distillate to the target percentage of alcoholic alcohol, you'll need to bottle your liquor. You can do this by simply adding other botanical ingredients to your gin bottles for a set period of time. This method is the best way to reduce the amount of sediment in the fermented water from the gin puree that enters the still. Either way, let the jar sit for another 12 hours before pouring the gin through a strainer into another jar to filter out the solids.
Some of the most commonly used botanical ingredients in gin (after juniper) are coriander seed, angelica root, citrus peel and cassia bark or cinnamon, but don't hesitate to visit the spice cabinet and herb garden.
