Modifying our stills

Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

Modifying our stills

Meet the stills

Our two 350-liter stills are made in Germany by Holstein. They are about 30 years old and were used by a distillery in Switzerland to make the fruit schnapps and liqueurs used in many famous Swiss chocolates.

We modified the original stills so they can make other types of alcohols, namely whisky, vodka, and gin. We did this by removing the old column from one of the stills and replacing it with a domed, bell top. It looks a lot like the onion domes you see on the Kremlin in Moscow. It’s a beautiful piece of machinery begging to be hugged. This top also has a practical purpose, giving us a single, traditional-type distillation.

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Crafting our unique gin method

We also added a gin basket so when we make gin, the delicate botanicals like flower petals don’t get boiled in the distillation process.

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The vodka column

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Since you can’t make vodka with a pot still, we added a new 15-foot vodka column.

Vodka, unlike whisky, is all about purity. You want to remove the majority of flavour producing congeners so that you are left with pure, clean, crisp alcohol, while still maintaining the subtle characteristics of the underlying raw grains. The design of the column is such that a mini distillation takes place on each of the column’s fifteen plates.

Together, these modifications result in a system that is incredibly flexible and capable of producing a wide range of high-quality spirits.

Monday, May 20th, 2013

Recycling water

Construction is almost finished, the stills are in place, the boiler is hooked up and the recycling system for the condenser water should be working next week.

What to do with all the water?

As you can imagine, a distillery uses a lot of cooling water for the condensers. Thousands of litres each time we run the still, in fact. It seems a massive waste, so we’ve installed a water recycling system.

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It’s an environmentally friendly way to recycle the thousands of litres of water that might otherwise go down the drain.

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Saturday, April 27th, 2013

Barrel Dreams

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Thursday, February 21st, 2013

Shwa Keirstead

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Odd Society is excited about working with local Commercial Drive area artist, Shwa Keirsted. We asked Shwa to do a painting of our stills. We are also using one of his existing paintings called Cornelius for our vodka label. His drawings and paintings seem like a perfect fit for our distillery.

Shwa describes his work this way:

Masses of mashed entities, a twisted outlook on modern life and surrealism style illustrations are my contribution to the world of art. Influenced greatly by cartoon culture, a draw to antique aged textures and traditional styles of line work.
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I’ve drawn all my life, taking my inspiration from my father and his drive for perfection in his own work. I find it hard not to create in some form, endlessly thinking of new ways to get my perspective and artistic energy out to the world.

To see more of Shwa’s work go to http://shwa-fish.artworkfolio.com/gallery/466088