And I’ve seen large ice columns that fit the contours of a lowball glass in bars before (anyone know where to get the trays for those?).Ĭocktails & Cologne does not approve or endorse any ads you might see on this blog. There’s no reason a very big cube, like the ones you can make with a Tovolo King Cube ice tray, wouldn’t work, too - and it’s under $10. A quick & easy graphic guide to understanding, tasting & drinking whisky. Large ice does melt slowly, and the small amount of dilution it provides is nice for certain cocktails. I’ve been using mine for about a year and it works quite well. So thank the cocktail gods that you can get a cheap plastic Japanese ice sphere tray for $16 at the Museum of Modern Art’s store. Others are so large and complex that one wonders why all this technology went into ice balls. Some other Japanese ice ball makers are a bit more complicated: Taisin, a Japanese maker of ice ball molds, makes them for perfect spheres or soccer ball shapes. A smaller version for a 2-inch sphere is $429. ![]() The Cirrus Press above, which makes a 2.75-inch sphere, retails for $799 and is back-ordered. The Drinksology Ice Ball Maker is another UK import, retailing for £595, about $945. The Macallan Ice Ball Maker will quickly transform a large cube of ice into a perfectly round ball of ice. Sorry I'm pretty terrible at videography, and also at photographing the resulting discs, but they're pretty "cool.The Macallan Ice Ball Instructional Video from The Edrington Group on Vimeo. You can see a finished puck being squished into an ice tahona in this video at regular speed: You know I wouldn't allow cloudy ice a place in my freezer ) The Macallan Ice Ball Maker will quickly transform a large cube of ice into a perfectly round. In the pictures, any of the ice that looks cloudy is just frosty. Buy The Macallan Ice Ball Maker online or send as a Gift. Using directional freezing, the water in them will freeze from the top down, so the ice in the mold will be clear, and the remaining ice below it cloudy. They're an insulated box with a rubbery mold insert. Cirrus offers just as luxurious product, and there are even cheaper replicas on the market as well. That’s why you should look into the cheaper versions from Amazon. Macallan’s machine is also quite valuable. Additional moulds can be ordered separately here. Macallan ice ball machine The Macallan ice ball machine is probably the one you’re most familiar with. ![]() This set consists of one ice ball maker and four ice ball moulds. The Ice Ball Maker is made of aluminium alloy and creates ice balls 65mm in diameter. This will chill your whisky but, as it melts more slowly than traditional ice cubes, it will not dilute it as quickly. That was always the problem with the regular ice sphere makers - unless you have clear ice going in, you get a cloudy ice ball. The Macallan Ice Ball Maker will quickly transform a large cube of ice into a perfectly round ball of ice. One thing different about this ice ball press is that they sent along with it insulated ice molds to make clear ice pucks. So here's a visual tour of the Roca Patron ice disc press: The press itself is of heavy (probably-copper) metal.Īs with all of these, it's in two parts with the mold shape in the middle. These won't be available for sale anywhere - they're just featured at bar accounts to promote serving Roca Patron over ice - but I think in the coming couple years we'll be seeing a lot of variations as the universe catches up to our ice geekery. ![]() Patron and most all tequila makers that use tahonas now uses cement-filled wheels with a central motor, which you can see in this video I took during a distillery visit a few years ago.Īnyway, Patron kindly lent me one of their ice disc molds to play around with at home. It is in the shape of the volcanic tahona stone that was used to crush the baked agave plant to separate the fibers and expose the fermentable sugars prior to fermentation/distillation. One of them was made for Roca Patron, the all-tahona-crushed-agave line of Patron tequila. Just this year I've seen ones made in brand-specific shapes. ice balls to last through multiple drinks Or a smaller 2 press for making 2.34 oz. Later on, some brands were making versions that were still spheres, but pressed with the shape of a soccer ball, then in other shapes like diamonds and snowflakes. The kit usually includes: Large 2.75 press for making 6 oz. The first ones out years ago were branded by The Macallan scotch and found in whisky bars, then later became for sale by other manufacturers. If you're an ice/cocktail nerd you've probably seen an ice ball press - a heavy metal object that squishes and melts a big piece of ice into a sphere.
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