Fermentation may well be the most important step in creating your own spirits. Why? Because it is where you create most of your flavors. Fermentation creates alcohol and flavors, where distilling mostly helps at concentrating and selecting the right alcohols and flavors. Distilling becomes both easier and better if it starts from a better ferment.
That fermentation is essential to creating better tasting spirits, is unfortunately not widely known in the craft distilling industry. The lack of education on this topic
We designed the iStill Fermenters with that understanding in mind. This has lead to many unique design features that the iStill Fermenters have and that other
