Flavoured Spirits Flashcards
How do a distiller flavour a spiced rum, that’s oak-aged and has natural flavours? And which flavours are common to use?
Flavours are added using maceration. Re-distillation would damaage the aromas from the oak and the natural flavours. cinnamon and vanilla are common used.
How do they flavour a vodka in the traditional way?
Normally they use maceration as a method. Flavours like honey, fruits, spices, and the aromatic herb “bison grass”.
How do they flavour a vodka in the modern way?
use different flavours, such as vanilla, fruit, pepper, chili. Some let the botanicals macerate in the spirit and then re-distill the resulting liquid.
Which botanical is legally required to be present in a gin?
Juniper - enbär
which botanicals are commonly used in a gin except for juniper?
coriander seeds, citrus peel, angelica root and orris root.
What kind of spirit do you use for making gin?
In EU you need to use a neutral spirit
In USA you are permitted to use any distilled spirit.
How do you mature gin?
In inert vessels, some exeptions where they mature it in oak for a short period.
Which technique do the distillers use when flavouring a gin? Two different ones
To get the purest flavour, they should process each botalnical individually instead of together and then blend them after or if they want one of them to stand out they can blend most of them together and then one by itself so that one stand out in the final blend.
Distillers also use stills with a botanical casket on the lyne arm to produce a lighter style.
Which two styles of gin are there?
Juniper-style
Contemporary
Which three different labeling terms do you categories gin in to?
Distilled Gin
London dry gin
Old Tom
What does distilled gin means? (labeling term)
in EU it means that all the flavours have been added after re-distillation.
in USA it means that all of the flavours must come from re-distillation
What does London dry Gin means? (labeling term)
In Eu - it can only get it’s flavours by re-distillation.
No suger can be added.
What does Old Tom means? (labeling term)
indicates that the gin has added suger and notable amount of liquoruce.
What does louching means?
It means when you’re diluting a spirit with the chemical anethole in it, when water is added it will form an opaque, cloudy suspention.
Which four spirits is included in anisees spirits?
Pastis, absinthe (france
ouzo (greece)
raki (turkey)
What is the chemical anethole extracted from ?
From a handful of plants, aniseed, fennel and star anise
How do distillers process a aniseed spirit?
Start with a neutral spirit, both maceration and re-distillation. Some process aniseed-flavourd plants individually and the rest together or all sindividuallt.
Normally unaged.
What’s Pastis? (from, character, colour)
It’s an aniseed spirit, from mediterranean.
Aniseed, fennel, star anise and liqourice is used for maceration.
It’s normally yellow, green or green-brown.
Sweetened.
Is absinthe supposed to be sweetened?
No, not when bottling, it’s meant to be sweetend to taste by the consumer.
What’s the character of Absinthe?
It’s either colourless or green, with a distinctly floral aroma and bitter taste from the wormwood.
Which is the only way to extract bitterness from a botanical?
by maceration
What’s the italian name for bitter spirits?
amaro
Which are the four bitter ingredients namned in the book?
quinine
gentian
bitter orange
artichoke
Are distillers allowed to add suger to a bitter?
yes, they must, to balance the bitterness.
What are liqueurs?
it’s flavoured spirits that have been sweetened.
Which base spirits are used when making liqueurs?
the majority use a neutral spirit base, but some examples use cognac or scotch whisky
Which are the four main groups when you talk about liqueurs
herb
fruit
seed, nut and kernel
cream
