Manufacturing Process

Question 1

Raw Materials for Distilled Spirits

Answer 1

Sugar Rich:
Grape & Fruits
Sugarcane
Sugar Beet

Starch Based:
Barley
Corn 
Rye
Wheat
Rice
Potato
Agave

Question 2

Key Ingredients for Distillation

Answer 2

Yeast - top fermenting bottom fermenting

Water- soft water, spring source avoiding iron content to steer from cloudiness & flavor

Question 3

Manufacturing Steps

Answer 3

1. Raw Materials
2. Milling - crushing, pressing, converting starches into fermentable sugars
3. Mashing - malting, mash tun, providing a fermentable extract
4. Fermenting - adding yeast
5. Distillation - low alcoholic bev by fermentation into a concentrated distilled spirit through heat and collection of ethyl alcohol vapors
6. Maturation - aging in wooden casks: Extraction, Degradation or Hydrolysis, Oxidation
7. Bottling - aging stops

Question 4

Boiling Points

Answer 4

Ethyl Alcohol - 173.3 F

Water - 212F

Question 5

Barrells

Answer 5

French Oak - 350lt/92gal
Spanish Oak - 500lt/132gal
White American Oak - 190lt/50gal

Question 6

White American Oak Drying

Answer 6

Air Drying- air seasoned

Kiln Drying - charring