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How do I make Rum?
DISCLAIMER: Distillique does not believe in providing and selling recipes, as this goes against the Craft of producing your own products. The recipes we share have been sourced from clients...
How do I make Rum?
DISCLAIMER: Distillique does not believe in providing and selling recipes, as this goes against the Craft of producing your own products. The recipes we share have been sourced from clients...

Can I use Smoking Wood Chips in Home Made Spirits?
Recently, with the massive increase in Home Distilling here in South Africa, a lot of people have been posting about using smoking chips and other woods on their distillate to...
Can I use Smoking Wood Chips in Home Made Spirits?
Recently, with the massive increase in Home Distilling here in South Africa, a lot of people have been posting about using smoking chips and other woods on their distillate to...

Dilution before Re-Distillation
Anyone who has ever done a double or even triple distillation of spirits will know that every time you run the spirits through the still it gets "stronger" - the...
Dilution before Re-Distillation
Anyone who has ever done a double or even triple distillation of spirits will know that every time you run the spirits through the still it gets "stronger" - the...

Different ways in which Still Shape Impacts Spi...
Both the shape and size of a still has a significant effect on the character of the spirit being produced – and it has a lot to do with copper....
Different ways in which Still Shape Impacts Spi...
Both the shape and size of a still has a significant effect on the character of the spirit being produced – and it has a lot to do with copper....

Choosing Suitable Fermentation Vessels
As with many thing in the Home and Craft Distilling Arena's, people make choices regarding their fermentation vessels based on training, education, experience, advice, habit, tradition and budget. As a...
Choosing Suitable Fermentation Vessels
As with many thing in the Home and Craft Distilling Arena's, people make choices regarding their fermentation vessels based on training, education, experience, advice, habit, tradition and budget. As a...

Varnished Barrels - Can we use them for Spirits?
We received a Facebook enquiry from a client two days ago, asking whether or not he could use a varnished barrel to age spirits in. Our intuitive reacrion was NO. It cannot...
Varnished Barrels - Can we use them for Spirits?
We received a Facebook enquiry from a client two days ago, asking whether or not he could use a varnished barrel to age spirits in. Our intuitive reacrion was NO. It cannot...