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Bottled and labelled homemade spirit and liqueur

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Bottling and Labelling Your Spirit

What to put on a bottle of homemade spirit or liqueur: ABV, batch details, standard drinks and storage notes, so every bottle is labelled clearly and safely.
Calculating standard drinks in a bottle of spirits

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How Standard Drinks Are Calculated

One Australian standard drink is 10 g of alcohol. Here's the simple formula, worked examples for spirits and liqueurs, and why bottle size matters as much as ABV.
Blending spirits and flavourings to make liqueurs

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Blending Spirits and Liqueurs

How to blend spirits, flavourings and sweeteners into balanced liqueurs and flavoured spirits, and how to repeat a batch you love.
Diluting spirit with water to reach a target ABV

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Understanding Alcohol Dilution

Diluting a spirit to the strength you want is simple maths. How to work out your final ABV, plus why water quality and resting time matter.
Separating heads, hearts and tails fractions in distilling

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Making Cuts: Heads, Hearts and Tails

What heads, hearts and tails are, why licensed distillers separate them, and how these cuts shape the quality of the final spirit.
Notebook recording readings from a distilling run

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Record Keeping for Distilling Runs

The readings and notes worth recording on every run, from fermentation to dilution and blending, so you can repeat your best batches.
Fermenting sugar wash in a fermenter

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Sugar Washes Explained

Sugar, water, yeast and nutrients sound simple, but gravity, temperature and yeast choice decide how clean your wash ferments. What matters and why.
Hydrometer reading the gravity of a fermenting wash

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Understanding Wash Gravity Readings

How to read original and final gravity in a fermentation wash, what the numbers tell you, and how to spot a stuck or unfinished ferment.
Still Spirits base packs for liqueurs

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Still Spirits Bases Explained: Which One to Choose

Liqueur Bases A, B and C, Schnapps and Cream: what each Still Spirits base does and which one to use with your favourite essence.

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