Category: Technique

Craft Floor Malting: A Practical Guide

As craft distilling and craft brewing become increasingly localized, producers are likewise looking for local materials - grain, hops, fruit, spices and other ingredients. Floor malting offers the small brewer or distiller an opportunity to source barley from farmers in...
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The Nano Distillery: The Future of Distilling

If you’re considering starting a distillery begin here. The Nano Distillery is a compilation of how-to chapters and real-life experiences of distillers who successfully produce quality spirits on a small scale. Complete with formulas, spreadsheets, and first-person accounts The Nano...
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The Maturation of Distilled Spirits: Vision & Patience

The Maturation of Distilled Spirits: Vision & Patience brings the respected author’s lifetime of experience to bear on the life of a well-crafted spirit. This book is about the aging of a spirit—its life in a barrel. Hubert Germain-Robin details...
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The Distiller

This book is for anyone devoted to the art and traditions of distilling. Originally published in 1818, "The Distiller" is a classic treatise on spirit-craft, penned in an era before science had yet illuminated the principles behind such critical concepts...
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The Cocktail Chronicles with Recipes

This book might be the story of a life as seen through the lens of a cocktail glass. Or it might be a cocktail glass as seen through the lens of a life. It could be a travelogue, or a...
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The Craft and Culture of Artisan Schnaps

The Craft and Culture of Artisan Schnaps tells the story of Austrian Schnaps, one of the distilling world’s great unsung treasures. Wholly different from its American namesake, Austrian Schnaps is distilled directly from fermented fruit, much like eau-de-vie, grappa, and...
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Breweries and Maltings

Considerations in the construction of a brewery are given voice here in detail; they include: site selection, wells and water, engines and boilers, machinery, malt mills, conveyers, mash tuns, pumping apparatus, hoppers, coolers, refrigerators, fermenting tuns, hop and yeast presses,...
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The Distiller’s Guide to Rum

This book is inspired by the recent popularity of rum among cocktail circles, and by the advent of so many new rum craft distilleries in North America. Included is: the story of rum and how it is made, the ingredients,...
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The Craft of Gin

The Craft of Gin explores the history of Gin production from its crude origins in medieval Europe to the finely honed spirits of twenty-first century craft distillers. The book describes how gin is made, the primary botanicals used in its...
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Modern Moonshine Techniques

Thinking of opting out of the mainstream distillates like whiskey and vodka? This modern manual of distilling moonshine provides information—history, process, equipment, regulations, resources—and some case histories of distillers who’ve been producing moonshine.
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