pot still
Noun
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pot still (plural pot stills)
A still used for distillation in the production of whisky, or for crude separations in a chemical plant.
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The highly concentrated spirit is then redistilled with juniper berries and other botanicals in a pot still.
In 1850, Andrew Usher began producing a blended whisky that mixed traditional pot still whisky with that from the new Coffey still.
The base is a mash of malted barley, dried in kilns fired with a little peat (although considerably less than in Scotland), and distilled using the pot still method.
Distillation was historically performed using an alembic or pot still until the continuous still was invented which made the distillation process much more economically efficient.
Whereas a single pot still charged with wine might yield a vapour enriched to 40–50% alcohol, a column still can achieve a vapour alcohol content of 95.6%; an azeotropic mixture of alcohol and water.