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Pot stills at the Lagavulin Distillery. A pot still is a type of distillation apparatus or still used to distill liquors such as whisky or brandy.In modern (post-1850s) practice, they are not used to produce rectified spirit, because they do not separate congeners from ethanol as effectively as other distillation methods.
The simplest standard distillation apparatus is commonly known as a pot still, consisting of a single heated chamber and a vessel to collect purified alcohol. A pot still incorporates only one condensation, whereas other types of distillation equipment have multiple stages which result in higher purification of the more volatile component ...
A bottle of Redbreast 12 Year Old, bearing the older description "Pure pot still". Newer bottles are labelled "Single pot still". Whiskey has been distilled in Ireland since at least the 1400s [10] and most likely as early as the 6th century. [3] Single pot still whiskey emerged as a means of avoiding a tax introduced in 1785 on the use of ...
Glenfiddich is a single malt Scotch whisky, this means the whisky was distilled at a single distillery using a pot still distillation process and must be made from a mash of malted barley. Onsite there are 43 distinctively-shaped "swan neck" copper pot stills. These stills are smaller than those now in use at most other major distilleries.
A glass of Bowmore 12-year-old single malt Scotch whisky. Single malt Scotch refers to single malt whisky made in Scotland. [1] [2] To qualify for this category, a whisky must have been distilled at a single distillery using a pot still distillation process [3] [4] and made from a mash of malted barley.
A pot still is a type of distillation apparatus or still used to distill flavored liquors such as whisky or cognac, but not rectified spirit because they are poor at separating congeners. Pot stills operate on a batch distillation basis (as opposed to a Coffey or column stills, which operate on a continuous basis).
Diagram of a Batch Rectifier. The simplest and most frequently used batch distillation configuration is the batch rectifier, including the alembic and pot still.The batch rectifier consists of a pot (or reboiler), rectifying column, a condenser, some means of splitting off a portion of the condensed vapour (distillate) as reflux, and one or more receivers.
His patent, the Coffey still, was a continuous distillation apparatus which offered an improvement on the traditional pot still. Although similar continuous stills had been proposed in the past, including by other Irish distillers themselves, the Coffey still was the most effective, and soon entered widespread use.