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Distillation - Pot v Column distillation
There are essentially two types of still, the pot still and the column still. Of the two, the pot still, also known as the alembic still, is the simplest...
Elisabeth Barmby
12th May 2020 at 12:42
Trying to get my head round continuous distillation. Is there an advantage to continuosly adding wash rather than just adding it all at once? For example, could you continuosly add wash to a pot still? Thanks in advance! Hope that makes sense haha :)
12th May 2020 at 13:17
Continuously adding wash to a column still allows the distillation to continue non-stop for weeks so very efficiently distilling very large volumes of wash. I don't know of a continuous wash pot still but in bourbon production they use continuous pot stills called doublers or thumpers for the second distillation. Tellingly, the first distillation is in a continuous column still.