web01.fireside.fm Sat, 23 May 2026 03:00:53 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Spirits & Distilling Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Lemon” https://spiritsanddistilling.fireside.fm/tags/lemon Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:00:00 -0600 Enjoy and learn from conversations with leading distillers as co-hosts Sydney Jones, head distiller for FEW Spirits in Chicago, and Molly Troupe, master distiller for Freeland Spirits in Portland, Oregon, explore the technical and creative processes behind award-winning and storied spirits. It’s a podcast by distillers, for distillers, that covers the broad world of finely crafted spirits—botanical and herbal spirits, fruit distillations, agave spirits, grain spirits, and more. Listen as the hosts discuss every aspect of the process, from ideation and ingredient selection through conversion and fermentation, distilling, aging, finishing, proofing, and packaging. 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Spirits & Distilling support@spiritsanddistilling.com 31: Sara Sergent of Alpine Distilling Blends Science with Instinct and Flair in Botanical Spirits https://spiritsanddistilling.fireside.fm/31 58e727ea-5d25-4c58-af56-388d38385558 Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:00:00 -0600 Spirits & Distilling full Spirits & Distilling Whether she’s engaging with the wide world of ingredients or sourcing those from her own high-mountain backyard, master distiller Sara Sergent combines well-honed sensory skills with a methodical process for testing how processes and treatments change aroma and flavor expression in her award-winning botanical spirits. 50:15 yes <p>Sara Sergent, master distiller for <a href="https://www.alpinedistilling.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Alpine Distilling</a> in Park City, Utah, has garnered countless accolades over her career, and today she works with some of the biggest names in the culinary world to bring their ideas to life, while also creating bespoke and diverse spirit expressions for guests at their social club. If there’s an ingredient out there, she’s probably tried it and worked through how it expresses best through distilling. Through the course of this episode, she shares that knowledge with us. Along the way, Sergent and host Molly Troupe cover: </p> <ul> <li>distilling challenging florals</li> <li>using vapor extraction to preserve delicate details in sensitive ingredients</li> <li>choosing which form of a plant—from root to flower—to use in distillation</li> <li>research methods for learning more about botanicals</li> <li>juniper variants from distant locales such as Japan and Croatia and their different impacts in gin</li> <li>the range of expression in different-origin angelica root</li> <li>maintaining botanicals in top shape for distilling and drying ingredients in-house</li> <li>the impact of different peeling methods on lemon expression</li> </ul> <p>And more. </p> <p><strong><a href="https://gdchillers.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">G&amp;D Chillers:</a></strong> G&amp;D Chillers understands that each distillery’s chilling requirements are unique. On every distillery project, G&amp;D offers the front-end design and engineering your team needs at no cost to you. Hank Pressley, head distiller at Moon Drop Distillery says, “Early on, we made a decision to partner with quality American-made companies. One of those companies was G&amp;D Chillers, and we are proud of that choice. Our equipment from them has run long and strong. We put our first barrel in our rickhouse in September 2021, and in the next 3 years we have put back more than another 540 barrels. What a great decision to team up with a company like G&amp;D Chillers.” Reach out for a quote today at gdchillers.com. </p> distilling, botanicals, gin, juniper, angelica, lemon, sourcing ingredients Sara Sergent, master distiller for Alpine Distilling in Park City, Utah, has garnered countless accolades over her career, and today she works with some of the biggest names in the culinary world to bring their ideas to life, while also creating bespoke and diverse spirit expressions for guests at their social club. If there’s an ingredient out there, she’s probably tried it and worked through how it expresses best through distilling. Through the course of this episode, she shares that knowledge with us. Along the way, Sergent and host Molly Troupe cover:

  • distilling challenging florals
  • using vapor extraction to preserve delicate details in sensitive ingredients
  • choosing which form of a plant—from root to flower—to use in distillation
  • research methods for learning more about botanicals
  • juniper variants from distant locales such as Japan and Croatia and their different impacts in gin
  • the range of expression in different-origin angelica root
  • maintaining botanicals in top shape for distilling and drying ingredients in-house
  • the impact of different peeling methods on lemon expression

And more.

G&D Chillers: G&D Chillers understands that each distillery’s chilling requirements are unique. On every distillery project, G&D offers the front-end design and engineering your team needs at no cost to you. Hank Pressley, head distiller at Moon Drop Distillery says, “Early on, we made a decision to partner with quality American-made companies. One of those companies was G&D Chillers, and we are proud of that choice. Our equipment from them has run long and strong. We put our first barrel in our rickhouse in September 2021, and in the next 3 years we have put back more than another 540 barrels. What a great decision to team up with a company like G&D Chillers.” Reach out for a quote today at gdchillers.com.

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  • distilling challenging florals
  • using vapor extraction to preserve delicate details in sensitive ingredients
  • choosing which form of a plant—from root to flower—to use in distillation
  • research methods for learning more about botanicals
  • juniper variants from distant locales such as Japan and Croatia and their different impacts in gin
  • the range of expression in different-origin angelica root
  • maintaining botanicals in top shape for distilling and drying ingredients in-house
  • the impact of different peeling methods on lemon expression

And more.

G&D Chillers: G&D Chillers understands that each distillery’s chilling requirements are unique. On every distillery project, G&D offers the front-end design and engineering your team needs at no cost to you. Hank Pressley, head distiller at Moon Drop Distillery says, “Early on, we made a decision to partner with quality American-made companies. One of those companies was G&D Chillers, and we are proud of that choice. Our equipment from them has run long and strong. We put our first barrel in our rickhouse in September 2021, and in the next 3 years we have put back more than another 540 barrels. What a great decision to team up with a company like G&D Chillers.” Reach out for a quote today at gdchillers.com.

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