Cotswold Distillery – ABV and Brix Measurement

Nestled in the heart of the beautiful Cotswolds countryside, producing outstanding natural spirits since 2014. Cotswolds is the first full-scale distillery in the region, crafting a range of single malt whiskies, gins and liqueurs, including the award-winning Cotswolds Dry Gin and Cotswolds Single Malt Whisky.

With a broad product range and tight product specifications, accurate ABV measurement is vital. The distillery currently uses a traditional distillation setup and hand held density measurement. ABV results take hours from sampling to obtaining a result, slowing down production at crucial points.

Daniel Szor, the founder of Cotswolds Distillery approached QCL for a fast, accurate solution to this problem, also with a requirement for accurate sugar measurement for the liqueurs and cocktail bitters.
The AlcoTest fitted the bill perfectly.

Combining a highly accurate, temperature controlled density meter with a refractometer the AlcoTest is able to give ABV results on all types of samples from Whisky and Gin, to liqueurs and cocktail bitters in less than 3 minutes and without any sample preparation, just inject the sample and press measure.

Now instead of waiting 2 hours for a result, the distillery receives their result in minutes.

“The AlcoTest is very easy to use and produces accurate results for us. It takes a fraction of the time for a result compared with our previous steam distillation method so we can spend more time on production“.
Alice Pearson Lead NPD Distiller

14/01/2024