A web journal about craft methods of distillation
Editors: Will Hodges & Ansley Coale
Individual products: Select Barrel XO
Individual products: Select Barrel XO
Craft Spirits: Germain-Robin Select Barrel XO
Old & Rare Brandies: Single-barrel brandies
Old & Rare Brandies: Single-barrel brandies
Fluid Dynamics: individual recipes
Fluid Dynamics: individual recipes
Craft Spirits: Fluid Dynamics barrel-aged cocktails/comments on the recipes
Old & Rare Brandies: Old Havana
Old & Rare Brandies: Old Havana
Old & Rare Brandies: Cask 17
Old & Rare Brandies: Cask 17
Varietal brandy: Roederer pinot noir
Varietal brandy: Roederer pinot noir
Distilling/aging brandy using pinot noir from Roederer Estate
Old & Rare Brandies: Augustín’s Blend
Old & Rare Brandies: Augustín’s Blend
Old & Rare Brandies: Barrel Blend 1994
Old & Rare Brandies: Barrel Blend 1994
Old & Rare Brandies: Barrel 351
Old & Rare Brandies: Barrel 351
Old & Rare Brandies: G-R/30-year-old
Old & Rare Brandies: G-R/30-year-old
Diluting with Rainwater
Diluting with Rainwater
More on bringing brandy to proof with rainwater
Bringing brandy to bottling proof using rainwater
Bringing brandy to bottling proof using rainwater
We use rainwater to descend our brandies to bottling proof. Here’s how we collect it.
Using Caramel
Using Caramel
Good talk about how caramel is used to color spirits
Is there caramel in your booze?
Is there caramel in your booze?
Has caramel been added to your whisky or cognac?
Cognac Potstill: the porte
Cognac Potstill: the porte
About the porte on our cognac potstill
Limousin oak barrels from Vicard
Limousin oak barrels from Vicard
Why we use Limousin oak barrels to age our brandies in, plus why we get to buy them from Tonnellerie Vicard
Cognac Potstill: the condenser
Cognac Potstill: the condenser
About the condenser unit on our cognac potstill
Cognac Potstill: the preheater
Cognac Potstill: the preheater
About the preheater on our cognac potstill
Brandy from French Colombard grapes
Brandy from French Colombard grapes
This is about our “workhorse” brandy grape, with a lot of info about aging…
Cognac Potstill: the swan’s neck
Cognac Potstill: the swan’s neck
About the swan’s neck on our cognac potstill