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A friend of mine is an aromatherapist (it doesn't make any sense to me, but whatever) and was wondering if she could try selling some aromatherapy-inspired liqueurs. No distillation would be required - everything would be done using commercial alcohol (bottled everclear, probably) and filters...

I'd like to build an activated charcoal filter for purifying vodka for use in liqueurs. However, I've run into the rather snarly problem of not being able to use anything that will leech into the alcohol, which does rather heavily limit the materials I can use for construction. As the alcohol...

I'm thinking about making some gin, but I'm told that to really do it properly, you want to run it through a still. Assuming I buy my booze from the store, is it kosher to do this?

I'd like to try making some orange liqueur. Because oranges are out of season and because I'm a lazy sod, I'm hoping to buy pre-prepared dried zest instead. Can anyone recommend a place to buy some high-quality orange zest, and perhaps, if you've used it in one of your beers, describe the flavor?

I've been wondering: Does anyone make a really big magnetic stirrer for carboys? And if there isn't, is there a reason why? I've spent some time tinkering with electric motors, and it seems like it shouldn't be too hard to scale one up to carboy-mixing size

I'm trying to make some homemade liqueurs, and was wondering if I could improve somewhat on the rather crude traditional methods. I'm doing this by the lazy-and-legal method: in short, buying commercial alcohol and flavoring it with various fruits spices, and whatnot. However, simply dumping a...