On Food and Cooking

“bathtub gin” slowed further progress from 1920 to 1934. In the 1950s, mixologists discovered the ...

antimony, which women used to darken their eyelids. By a process of generalization, it came to mea ...

condense and are collected as a separate liquid. The concentrated alcoholic liquid is then modified in variou ...

Selecting Desirable Volatiles Distillers must therefore control the composition of the distilled liqui ...

(Fusel is the German for “rotgut.”) A small dose of fusel oils gives a distilled alcohol characte ...

koumiss, and European settlers in North America made apple brandy — applejack — in the same way. ...

flavorful malt and corn whiskies to 60–80%. Crudely distilled moonshine is only 20–30% alcohol, and there ...

with 20–30% alcohol, and the second 50– 70%. The structures of several different alcohols. Methanol ...

still, an elongated chamber developed by French and British distillers during the Industrial Revolution ...

they’re capable of producing a neutral distillate that is 90–95% alcohol. Pot distillation. As wine or be ...

Continuous distillation in a column still. The plates in each column are hottest at the steam input and cooles ...

whiskies, are so called because they’re aged in wood barrels, from which they derive a characteristic taw ...

water to the desired final alcohol content, in the neighborhood of 40%. Small quantities of other ingredien ...

46% alcohol, so such undiluted “cask- strength” spirits are often not chill-filtered. (Some spirits ...

Concentrated Alcohol: Proof The term proof is sometimes used to designate the alcoholic content of distil ...

appreciate nuances of flavor, they’re best served at room temperature, and if necessary warmed in the ...

swallowed. Some Popular Distilled Spirits The alcohol content after distillation is an indicator of how much ...

Brandies Brandies are spirits distilled from grape wine. The two classic brandies are Cogna ...

distillation of esters from the wine yeasts. Armagnac is relatively rough and complex thanks to it ...

complicated, transformed wineyness, eaux de vie capture and concentrate the distinctive essence of the ...