I like Gin. There, I said it. There’s nothing finer than a good Gin and Tonic on a warm afternoon, it’s on of lifes little delights. Plus, alcohol.
I’ve also started playing around with distilling Gin. Now, I will admit that I’m not great, and I’m not even mad-keen on making something just to drink it, but I do like the process. There’s something about brewing, whether it’s beer or spirits that seems to scratch some itch that covers making something, mixing something, and it adds a decent amount of engineering and maths.
To help me with this I put together GinML a little Gin distillation tracker to me record my experiments and figure out what works (after a few gins, it can sometimes be hard to remember). I wanted to be able to move away from scribbles in my notepad but also be able to share recipes.
The app includes building batches around botanicals and recipes and allows you to record activities on the day. Each batch can also be exported to a .ginml file (essentially a YAML file but nicerer) which you can then share with other people, and of course you can import those files to. GinML also supports adding your tasting notes and provides visualisations of those through some basic analytics.
You can also export all your data to XLSX just so that you know it’s always there for you.
GinML is free to use, but feel free to buy me a coffee if you like it, it’ll help to pay for the data and query costs.