Still Spirits Air Still Botanical Basket for Gin Making Infusion Botanicals

Still Spirits Air Still Botanical Basket for Gin Making Infusion Botanicals Description

The Still Spirits Air Still Infusion Basket is a stainless-steel basket suitable to infuse your neutral distilled spirit with botanicals such as juniper, lemon, orange peel, cinnamon sticks, chilli or other flavouring ingredients.

The basket is easily attached to the underside of the Air Still lid by aligning the indentation on the basket with the nodes on the lid.

Air Still and Botanicals sold separately.RECIPE: Standard Gin - Botanical Recipe for 4 L (1.1 US Gal) wash. Juniper Berries 12g, Coriander 3g, Angelica Root 0.8g, Root Cut Liquorice 0.5g, Orange Peel 0.5g, Lemon Peel 0.5g.

USING THE AIR STILL INFUSION BASKET:
The infusion basket is a great tool for adding flavour and aromas from botanicals and other plant material by infusing it into your distillate. It can be used when distilling water, essential oils and alcohol.

Attach by removing the Air Still top cover, then simply seat the infusion basket on the underside of the main units lid.
Set up an Air Still wash as per standard instructions.

FIRST DISTILLATION (STRIPPING RUN)
Add 4 L (1.1 US Gal) of cleared wash into the Air Still. Then distil to obtain 700 ml (23.6 US fl oz) at 60% ABV neutral alcohol.

DILUTE
Dilute to 40% ABV and filter the alcohol using a Still Spirits Air Still Carbon Filter System.
After filtering, dilute the alcohol further so you have 4 L (1.1 US Gal) for the second distillation (ABV will be around 12%).

SECOND DISTILLATION (INFUSION RUN)
To flavour with a gin infusion, add the desired botanicals to the underside of the lid. Ensure no botanicals block the vapour inlet of the lid.
Secure the botanical basket, ensure you line up the dimple on the basket with the notch on the Air Still lid. Rotate to secure.
Run the Air Still as normal with your pre-distilled, filtered and diluted plain spirit.
To remove the basket, rotate the basket until the dimple on the basket and notch on the lid are aligned. Pull upwards on the metal ring to remove.
The vapour will collect the essence of the botanicals as it passes through the basket.
NOTE: The same process can be used for infusing into water. Please note that the water may take on a cloudy appearance, this is normal.