Online Distilling Class – Choose Your Own Date!

Please note: Classes need time to prepare equipment, fermentation etc. and we require a 14 day lead time from today’s date on class dates.

Online distilling class offered exclusively at Mile Hi Distilling will allow you to pick your own date to join the head distiller at Conflagration Distilling Co. via an online video call where you’ll have a personalized distilling experience catered to the spirit of your choice.

You can now join Mile Hi Distilling’s online distilling class from the comfort of your own home whether you’re in California, Florida, or Europe!

Learn how to make whiskey, rum, agave spirit, vodka or gin as we distill a live batch of the spirit of your choice from start to finish, answer any questions you have throughout the process, and prepare the video recording after the class is over so that you can access it at any point in time!

Since the video will be yours forever after the class ends, you don’t even need to own a still right now to take value in the class. Join the class, enjoy the journey, ask questions and pull the trigger on your first ever still after you’ve learnt more of the process or place your still right by your side during the course and distill along with us.

Customers who buy our online distilling workshop will receive 10% off on any still purchase they make through Mile Hi Distilling.

More details on the class as well as the syllabus can be found down below:

A. Creating A Wash
Step-By-Step Fermentation Process

Fermentation Notes:
Understanding water quality and pH
Enzymes and yeast
Understanding starch conversion and fermentable sugars

B. Setting up a Still
Importance of a vinegar run
Difference between different configurations (Reflux, Pot)
Hose Set Up (Recirculating system or Direct Line and Drain)
Importance of keeping element submerged
How much to fill to avoid burping
Footnote on why you would do a stripping run

C. Distilling Process
Foreshots and heads – how much and when to collect
How to use your temperature to determine cuts
Charge or Add Botanicals to Gin Basket (during gin class only)
When to collect hearts
Using a alcoholmeter with temperature corrections
When to know you are in your tails and when to stop collecting
Blending spirits
Filtration
Aging spirit (if applicable)
The process of what makes a whiskey a whiskey (if applicable)

Q&A

Equipment being used in class:
Custom 3 Gallon 3” Torpedo Pro with Live Proofing Parrot
110V Heating Controller
4G fermentation bucket for each wash
Filtering Unit for 30 Gallons
Mash Tun
Alcohol meters and hydrometers