Here you can ask us anything you like. The team will be checking in regularly to answer any burning questions you might have.
This may be a daft question but I am new to the Distillery - why is it called Circumstance Distillery ?
Not a daft question! Its quite an unusual name.
There are two reasons…
-
A lesser know definition of ‘Circumstantial’ is ‘’ a description containing full details" For each of our releases we publish as much as possible about the process that created it, down to the type of yeast etc.
-
Circumstance is our second distillery. Our first is call Psychopomp Microdistillery, so the two together are ‘Psychopomp and Circumstance’. Silly word play.
1 Like
I respect the first reason, but can’t help having a greater liking for the second reason 
How are the experiments going with the ceramic aging jars?
We havent got very far with those.
We did find a few glaze finishes that allowed oxygenation without too much evaporative loss. However the next stage is to try them out at a larger size. Its not going to be easy to find someone with a big enough kiln to fire 25L -50L custom pots with custom glazes. Better chances now we are out of lock-down though!
Well this is rather fortuitous, I genuinely might be able to help you with that. My partner operates a pretty successful pottery cafe, as such she has rather large kilns… If you can send me the physical dimensions of the pots, I can check if we can do a firing for you.
Awamori! That’s the word. I’ve been reading up on it - sounds like it should lead to some delicious offerings 
Oh! thats really interesting! Id not heard of Awamori
Coincidentally, we have just released a rice spirit aged for 32 months. It’s absolutely delicious mixed with soda. Awamori sounds similar.
Ah I thought that’s what gave you the idea! It’s fascinating. Apparently different minerals in the clay influence the end spirit in different ways.
I heard about it via the blog at Master of Malt - Awamori - Japan’s unknown spirit - Master of Malt Blog