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 ...

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 ...

“The intent of the two types of distillation are very different. The Scotch/Irish [grain whiskey] type is trying to remove as much character as possible. Our column still is making the final whiske ...

The first distillation takes place in a column still, which as the name suggests, is a tall cylindrical column with different compartments inside. It's also known as a beer still, and can be made ...

Column stills, for better or worse ... Granted, much of the rum that the world consumes is entirely produced via column distillation–most of the big Puerto Rico brands, for instance, which ...