Some more casks were getting filled today. It was blisteringly cold, silent, bright and crunchy underfoot. Absolutely lush ❄️😍.
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Wrapping up the last distillation of raspberry must for this year's Raspberry Ghost!
This custom fabricated steel bin has a false floor so separates liquid and solid waste in our whole-fruit distillations (as opposed to, say, cider) so we can send to anaerobic digestion and animal feed separately (where appropriate).
It's a messy business!
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Feeling a bit hot in this glorious weather? Here's a video of a newt swimming past the distillery cooling pipes.
This account might be turning into a booze and newt account. I mean look at its toes 😍.
Big thanks to the unflappable @ginfoundryuk for featuring us on @sundaybrunchc4 this week with a delicious gin cocktail tailored to our London Dry. Recipe below and remember you can order from @ginkiosk if you need a top up.
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English Garden
🍹50ml Greensand Ridge London Dry
🍹100ml Apple Juice
🍹25ml Elderflower Liqueur
🍹25ml Lemon Juice
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Shake with ice, strain over ice & garnish with apple slices.
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Towards the end of a distillation, higher alcohols are concentrated in the tail fraction. Some of these are below their melting point in the cool liquid (t-butyl alcohol for example melts at 25C), so they condense into waxy droplets.
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It is quite beautiful. If you try and catch one of these shooting stars on your finger it will melt instantly, but it's hypnotic to watch their dance.
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They also taste disgusting so it's a skilled process to make sure they don't leak into your spirit heart.
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Blackstrap Molasses. Its not like the molasses you cook with. Thicker, darker, bitter, but still with the underlying sweetness which we rely on to ferment into our Wealden Rum.
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It's at the distillation phase that we can extract the alcohol and delicate aromatics, controlling the funkier part of the fermentation metabolites.
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It's a bugger to work with. It sticks to everything. But it makes a lovely spirit.
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Will makes the sound of a baby goat as he drops like a sack of potatoes. #FridayFun #RackingHeadbut #AccidentLog #WhatCCTVisfor
Fermenting raspberries. This year has been huge for raspberries, and so it's not only the supermarket reject we've taken but good fruit that just doesn't have a buyer in the few days that it is in perfect condition. We've had so much that we're fermenting a ton to make an eaux-de-vie alongside our regular Raspberry Ghost. Brace yourselves.
Would the boar like the pressed apple pomace? You'll never guess what happened next... #foodwaste #boar #circulareconomy #community #distilling
Distilling Raspberry Ghost. A boiling boozy raspberry soup. #himbeergeist #craftspirits #distilling
Some left over raspberries that we're not #distilling being pressed for next spring's #raspberrygin. A bit gory.
We make sustainable spirits from the very finest ingredients sourced from the fields, orchards and woods underneath the Greensand Ridge.
