Description
Day 1 Saturday 10.30-4.00
Great Spirits Start Here: Cooking, Mashing & Fermenting Grains
Mashes, ferments and washes for whisky and neutral spirit.
Mashing/washes
- Grains as a source of fermentable sugar
- How to select and where to source your grain
- All about the malting process
- How to grind and gelatinize your grains
- How to mash malted grains
- Using sugar as the basis for neutral spirit
Fermentation
- Yeast, bacteria and how they work
- How to select and where to source your yeast
- How to setup and complete a strong fermentation
- How to prepare perfect whisky wash
- How to prepare the best sugar wash for neutral spirit
Day 2 Sunday 10.00-3.00
Distillation
Featuring distillations of both our American-style whisky and neutral spirit ferments.
- Safety briefing and general good practice
- Types of Stills & how to use them
- Alcohol basics, boiling points and chemical composition
- Distillation of low wines
- Distillation of final spirit
- How to make cuts, removing foreshots and separating hearts
- Making your final blend
Aging & Barreling for Whisky
- Types of wood to use & where to source
- How to prepare your own wood for aging
- Toasting
- Charring
- What flavors are created through this process
- How long to age for
- Time, oak and what it does over months and years
