Bourbon and the Pot Still. The rise of the column still in commercial spirits production correlates pretty perfectly with the advent of the American whiskey we today refer to as bourbon.

Irish whiskey exports jumped by 13% in 2024, and the global market is expected to hit $9.5 billion by 2033. The resurgence is ...

The process of double distillation, as the name implies, consists of two steps. In the first, the fermented mash is distilled ...

Vodka's Trend Toward Pot Distillation. Cocktail aficionados are excited about the fabulous new vodkas being made in old-fashioned copper pot stills.

Hailing from Surrey, England, the ultra-premium new style of London Dry Gin was masterminded by former ITV director Ian ...

During distillation, distillers separate the alcohol and congeners from the fermented mash of grains, ... Pot stills result in a spirit that often contains a more complex mixture of congeners.

But perhaps the most enduringly popular, at least among rum geeks, was Master Blender Collection: Pot Still Rum, ... Per usual, Mount Gay has worked its fermentation and distillation magic, ...

There, my torch light illuminated an old pot still — a relic that would have once been used for the illegal distillation of the historic Irish spirit poitín.