Entuziast Blog - distillate
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The word “craft” is everywhere today.
Craft beer.
Craft gin.
Craft distillate.
Craft liqueur.
Craft rum.
And it is very easy to start treating ..
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Two bottles show the same number on the label.
For example — 40%.
Or 43%.
You take a sip of the first drink, and it feels sharp, burning and stron..
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When tasting strong spirits, you may hear some strange-sounding words.
“Oily.”
“Dense.”
“Velvety.”
“Silky.”
“Watery.”
But there is no cooking o..
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You take a sip of a distillate and think: “It tastes slightly sweet.”
Then you look at the ingredients and see no sugar, no syrup and no honey added..
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You open a bottle, pour the first glass and clearly remember the aroma.
A few weeks later, you return to the same bottle — and the drink seems sligh..
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You take a sip, swallow the drink — but the flavour does not disappear.
For a few more seconds, you may still notice fruit.
Then spice appears.
Af..
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In tasting notes for whisky, brandy, rum or another aged distillate, you will often see words such as vanilla, caramel, coconut, spices, chocolate or..
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You pour a spirit into a glass, bring it to your nose — and suddenly you smell apple.
Or pear. Banana. Peach. Apricot. Citrus peel. Ripe berries.
T..
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You pick up a bottle of craft spirit, hold it up to the light — and notice a small amount of sediment at the bottom.
Sometimes it is just a few tiny..
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A bottle of gin is standing on the shelf, but before serving you want to chill it properly. This raises a perfectly reasonable question: can you simp..
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Honey has been part of human life far longer than vineyards, stills, or oak barrels.
Long before modern beekeeping existed, people collected hone..
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Sometimes the most interesting way to reveal the character of a spirit is not to make a cocktail more complicated, but to build it around a few brigh..
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Manhattan is a cocktail that needs neither elaborate decoration, large amounts of ice, nor a long list of ingredients.
In its classic form, everythi..
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Honey has been part of human life far longer than vineyards, stills, or oak barrels.
Long before modern beekeeping existed, people collected hone..
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Today, the oak barrel seems inseparable from the world of aged spirits.
Whisky, brandy, Cognac-style distillates, rum, Calvados, and countless cr..
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Old Fashioned is one of the best cocktail structures for a spirit that already has a complex personality. There is no citrus juice, soda, or collectio..
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Classic cocktails are fascinating because their basic formulas can be reinterpreted without destroying the original idea. That is exactly how our Hone..
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If you look at traditional stills used to produce Cognac, whisky, fruit brandies, and other distillates, you will often see a distinctive reddish-go..
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When people talk about distillation, they often use three unusual terms: “heads,” “hearts,” and “tails.” To someone unfamiliar with spirit productio..
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Distillation and rectification are often mentioned together, which makes it easy to assume that they are almost the same process. Both involve heati..
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The words “alcohol” and “distillate” are often used almost interchangeably. This is understandable: both concepts are related to alcoholic beverages..
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After pouring a strong spirit into a glass, it is tempting to smell and taste it immediately. However, the first impression does not always reveal t..
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We taste with our eyes first
A person has not yet opened the bottle.
Has not inhaled the aroma.
Has not taken the first sip.
But the brain has a..
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A myth that almost everyone believes
Go to any store and look at the shelves with alcohol.
On many bottles you can see familiar numbers: 5 years, 1..