1860 A Treatise on the Manufacture , Imitation, Adulteration and Reduction of Foreign Wines, Brandies, .

DISTILLATION.

DISTILLATION (DESTILLIREN, German) is the manufacture (commercially speaking) of spir– ituous or intoxicating liquors; comprising the operations of mashing the vegetable mate– rials whjch furnish the basis for the formation of the alcohol; cooling of the worts, which brings them to the most favorable temperature for exciting the third process-fennentation; the fourth and last process being tbe separation of the alcohol, with a certain proportion of water, by means of a still. The follo-vving condensed article, from Ure, on the above subject, will be found interesting to the reader:- Whiskey, as before remarked, is generated by (152)