If you have already sipped through some of the best brands of vodka on the globe and feel that your palate still needs to experience vodka with different character then you can now sip on heady nectar after distilling vodka in your home. You can create your own vodka drinks after successful distillation and can also share your potent liquid art with your close buddies.

If you can handle strong spirits and have loved trying out vodkas made from various ingredients such as potatoes, rye, grains, etc then your palate would surely be eager to find out hidden traits of vodkas distilled all over the globe. However, you can also sip on vodka distilled in your own home too. The entire fermentation and distillation process of vodka can be replicated on a small scale in a home distilling kit that will produce batch upon batch of delectable vodka after each distillation process.

You will first need to learn on how to prepare a fermented mash or mixture containing water along with mashed potatoes or rye, or various grains, among others along with the best possible yeast such as Turbo yeast. This process will enable you to create a strong mash, which in turn will make distilling vodka quite easy so as to provide you with exceptionally strong-yet-smooth vodka after you have repeated the distilling process a couple of times. However, compared to fermentation, distillation requires greater care since you will actually be boiling a volatile spirit until the spirit evaporates and condenses back into stronger vodka.

Although the distillation process of vodka has virtually remained unchanged since it was happily created in Russia and Poland several centuries ago, the distilling equipment has certainly undergone major changes with several safety features being incorporated in such equipment. You can indulge in pot distillation for distilling vodka where you will need to pour your fermented mash into a pot and heat the contents from below so as to release vodka vapors. These vapors will travel into a pipe attached to the top of the pot and will travel towards a collection vessel. However, before those vapors can escape out of the other end of the pipe, they will be condensed back into stronger vodka through condensation achieved by using circulating water or cold air. The resultant vodka is strong since it has escaped from the fermented mash that also contains water. You can indulge in repeated distillation until you receive vodka with the required alcohol proof levels that will truly amaze your palate and provide a buzz to your senses at the same time.

Since vodka is largely neutral by taste, you can now provide a distinct character and flavor to your distilled vodka by adding appropriate essences or even various flavors. You can now serve up your distilled heady creations to your friends and collect their feedback to further improve each future batch even as you have a lot of fun of creating this wonderful spirit right at home. The fact that you will also end up saving a lot of money by producing vodka at home should further encourage you to keep on distilling.

Vodka is a wonderful spirit that is flexible enough to be consumed on its own or infused in several delicious cocktails. If your taste buds demand vodka with a completely unique character then you can certainly oblige them by distilling vodka in your own home in a matching home distillation kit while serving up your heady drinks to close friends.