Our Production Process
Our Distillery Gardens
The botanicals we grow in our distillery gardens are cared for using only natural products. This is our dragon fruit grove.
Wort/Wash Preparation
In our distillery pot kettle we blend water with our selection of malted and un-malted grains, sugar or molasses, where it is boiled and steeped before the filtered wort/wash is transferred to our fermentation tanks. This kettle is also used in some of our fresh fruit preparations.
Fermentation
Yeast is selected, dependent on the type of spirit we are making, and added to the wort/mash. Temperature, pH and specific gravity is monitored during this process.
Distillation
After fermentation, the wort/wash is transferred to our still (affectionately known as “Our Girl”). Our Girl is a hybrid copper still which can be run as a pot still, pot still with gin basket or thumper, or a twelve bubble-plate reflux still with or without the gin basket.
After the low wines are collected, we conduct further runs through the column, resulting in our own unique style of base alcohol for our spirits. To make our gin, we select our special mix of herbs, fruits and other botanicals which we either macerate or place in the column gin basket to infuse our desired aromatic and taste profile. Alternately, we run the low wines through the twelve -plate reflux column to produce a premium clean vodka.
CROSSOVER BLENDING: Artisans Secret Distillery shakes up the traditional spirit industry with introducing new small-batch botanical crossovers, launching spirits such as Ginouzo and GinRumi. Creating these delicious combinations is an enchanting experience for us.
Rum Aging
We age our batches of dark rum in French and American Oak barrels for a minimum four to six years
