our process
Our master distiller carefully balances the myriad flavours of our Indonesian botanicals with the highest quality macedonian Juniper. The objective is to get a balance between the perfect concentration of flavours, and a smooth clean spirit.
Gin is legally defined into 3 categories, Gin, Distilled Gin & London Dry gin. Distilled & London Dry gins are renowned for their superior quality using an authentic distillation process to extract flavour from natural juniper and botanicals. ‘Gin’, on the other hand, is just neutral alcohol mixed with juniper flavouring – this, in our eyes, isn’t ‘real gin’ as it hasn’t been distilled, and it certainly doesn’t taste as good!
At Spice Islands Distilling Co. all of our small batch craft gins are authentically distilled using our handmade 550L copper still ‘Gede’, which was made in Germany by the lovely people at Carl, arguably the best producer of stills on the planet.
Gede
In Bali, Gede is the name given to the first son or daughter. We know you’re not meant to pick favourites when it comes to your children, but we’re in love with our first born, just look at her!
Designed by Carl with direction from our Master Distiller Mitch Hayhow, Gede has a 550L capacity, carter head botanical basket and a 7 plate rectification column. In short, she is more flexible than a Ubud yoga instructor and can make pretty much any spirit we make at Spice Islands Distilling Co. Crafted with copper she creates the purest possible gins, removing impurities from the spirit and botanicals through the distillation.
Agung
Agung in Indonesian means ‘great in size, imposing in appearance’. So naturally, with 5 liter capacity and standing approximately 2.5 feet tall, we called this little fellow ‘Agung’. Small, but perfectly formed, Agung is our trial still, he allows us to do very small batch runs to experiment with numerous flavours and distillation techniques. With the sole purpose of perfecting our recipes.
