I get a lot of questions about distilling gin, so I decided to compile all the questions and answer them in this video. The list of questions I answer is as follows:

0:00 Intro
0:20 Should I macerate my botanicals in the spirit?
1:20 If I decide to macerate my botanicals, how long should I do this for?
2:35 If I decide to macerate my botanicals in the spirit, what temperature should the spirit be?
3:21 What should the percentage of the alcohol be that I charge my still with for the distillation?
4:39 Should I crush my botanicals to get more surface area from them, or should I just leave them whole?
5:31 How do I go about making a gin recipe and selecting my botanicals?
5:45 Why do you take a heads cut in your gin distillation if you are charging the still with neutral grain spirit. Shouldn't neutral grain spirit be flavourless and free from methanol?
7:05 Should I distil all my botanicals separately and then blend the distillates together to create a gin, or should I just distil all my botanicals together? Which is better?
8:06 Which botanicals are better vapour infused and which are better being distilled directly in the liquid?
8:47 I have heard that I need to add either orris root or angelica root to my gin recipe, since they act as fixatives. Is this true?
9:55 The gin I distilled is cloudy and murky looking why is that?
10:24 The gin I distilled has a green tinge to it, what is that?
10:49 Is a copper still or a metal still better for distilling gin?
11:41 If a gin distillery makes their own base spirit, is the gin they produce better than a distillery that buys in NGS?
12:56 If a gin distillery makes their own base spirit, is the gin they produce better than a distillery that buys in NGS?
14:17 Outro

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