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At Conrad Distillery, triple pot distillation is adopted not as a traditional flourish, but as a scientifically informed process designed to optimise purity, structural balance, and sensory refinement.
t doesn’t begin with sweetness—it begins with patience.
Ninety days of distilling a vodka so smooth it knows how to behave, before it ever meets coffee. Then comes the cold brew—slow, deliberate, and dangerously refined—drawing out deep cacao and caramel notes without a trace of bitterness. And just when you think it’s all discipline, the XO arrives… milk chocolate, soft and indulgent, melting through the structure like it was always meant to be there.
Smooth. Balanced. Just a little bit seductive.
Vodka may appear simple, but beneath its clarity lies a quiet transformation. As it rests, tiny flavour compounds (congeners) soften and integrate, while alcohol and water form structured groupings (molecular clusters) that shape texture and smoothness. At Conrad Distillery, we honour this invisible process, resting our spirits for 30 days between distillations, allowing time to refine not just flavour, but the very structure of the spirit.
There is something magical about stepping behind the still. The copper gleam, the scent of juniper and citrus in the air, the quiet theatre of
“My doctor keeps trying to prove my daily gin habit is unhealthy. The blood tests keep disagreeing.”
As a former cosmetic chemist turned distiller, I find the conversation around alcohol and health far more nuanced than most headlines suggest.
A few reflections on moderation, science, and why craftsmanship changes how we think about spirits.
Red vs black juniper explained. Discover why Conrad uses organic Bulgarian red junipers for softer pine, pepper lift and refined gin balance.
