Tech Notes Archive:
Individual Products – Only Once No. 25
Individual Products: comments Special Heirloom Apple Brandy
Individual Products: Comments on Russell Henry Dark Gin
Tech Note: Making Distilling Wine at a High Tech Facility
Tech Note: Freshly Distilled Brandy from Apples
Tech Note: Interview with Karina Abad on Organizing Production
Almost every great spirit got bastardized when it became commercialized. Los Danzantes has spent huge effort keeping the process absolutely/purely authentic. This is long but worth watching. Their blanco (las Nahuales in the USA) is very, very good.
Tech Note: Three Stills at Los Danzantes
Los Danzantes has spent a couple of years organizing their distillery so that they can produce commercial amounts of mezcal without abandoning artisan methods.
Tech Note: How Los Danzantes Does Their Work
Los Danzantes has spent a couple of years organizing their distillery so that they can produce commercial amounts of mezcal without abandoning artisan methods.
Tech Note: Using a Hoga Potstill for Mezcal from Tobalá Agave
Karina Abad of Los Danzantes telling me about using using the Hoga pot still (the one we shipped to them) for the second distillation of mezcal from the elegant agave tobalá: more finesse. This has a lot to do with the condensing coil.