The spirit produced by column stills was generally more pure and potent, but in the process of distillation it also stripped away more oils and “congeners,” a catch-all term for trace ...

Because column still distillation efficiently strips virtually all extraneous grain compounds out of the liquid, leaving nearly pure alcohol, grain whiskies are frequently less flavorful and ...

Distillation would have spread across the ... I’ve seen some reach a couple stories high. Column stills operate with the same goal as the pot still: to coax the different aromatic vapors ...

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Two stills operate conventionally, producing the first spirit stream through standard double distillation. But it’s what happens next that makes Mortlach unique. The remaining four stills create ...