Distiller’s Workbook

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Presented here is the preview of my yet to be formally published Distiller’s Workbook which is a series of exercises for new distillers to perform to learn hard to reach concepts in chemistry & physics. The workbook is also the basis for a new cocktail-centric style of bar room distillation slowly popping up around the world, most notably in London.

The book has made a lot of progress, but I’m still learning so much. The lasting things that need to be tackled before I publish are creating revised methods for standardizing botanical charges by examining essential oil yields and a creating a series of best bets for constructing products like gin & curacao where recipes are written in terms of essential oil content instead of highly variable grams of botanical measurements (This is done in theory and I have recovered all of Seagram’s secret botanical assay procedures from the 1930’s. I have yet to spend the money to build out their lab completely).

Distiller’s Workbook exercise 1 of 15 Tabasco Aromatized Gin

Distiller’s Workbook exercise 2 of 15 De-constructing and Re-constructing Chartreuse

Distiller’s Workbook exercise 3 of 15 Mass Market Maraschino Mayhem

Distiller’s Workbook exercise 4 of 15 Joseph König’s 19th Century Curaçao

Distiller’s Workbook exercise 5 of 15 Hershey’s Chocolate Bourbon

Distiller’s Workbook exercise 6 of 15 Truly Stimulating Absinthe

Distiller’s Workbook exercise 7 of 15 Non-potable Pure Pot Still Purell; Wormwood Aromatized Hand Sanitizer

Distiller’s Workbook exercise 8 of 15 Chipotle Tequila

Distiller’s Workbook exercise 9 of 15 Double Grain Bill White Dog

Distiller’s Workbook exercise 10 of 15 Rooibos & Rye a.k.a. African Rye Whiskey

Distiller’s Workbook exercise 11 of 15 Pisco Faux Mosto Verde #Fail

Distiller’s Workbook exercise 12 of 15 Marmite Aromatized Rye