Distilled spirits and fruit schnapps
Served in The Evening, course 11: Tiramisu.
The orchard and its fruit Drink
Its documents
- 17 Historical Copper Alembic Still Construction The Historical Construction and Metallurgical Dynamics of the Traditional Copper Alembic Still
- 158 Berliner Weisse And Small Drinks Berliner Weisse and the Small Drinks
The chapters that use them
In the log
The claims that cite its documents, the safety rows first.
- D2 unresolved Safety Discard the first 50 ml of every 10 litres of wash as heads; run a solvent-smelling spirit again cutting the first 100 ml
- D5 amended Safety Copper still: plumbing grade (Cu-DHP) not wire (Cu-ETP); joints riveted or silver-soldered, never lead solder; cut off every old solder joint; scrub black film …
- W30 confirmed The still is left bare because hot copper binds the wash's sulphur compounds as black copper sulphide, scrubbed off between runs; a tinned or stainless head …
- W31 confirmed Biringuccio, De la Pirotechnia 1540: lute of lean clay, horse dung, egg white, hammer scale, linen strips and flour; rye flour and water as the modern lute
- D41 amended Mary the Jewess and the bain-marie; al-anbiq; al-Razi distilling before 900; Brunschwig, Liber de arte distillandi, Strasbourg 1500, lute of linen, salt water …
- D43 confirmed Copper strips sulphur compounds as black copper sulphide; a steel still makes a spirit that smells of the ferment
- D45 confirmed Still: 10 to 20 l pot, coil 5 to 7 m in cold water; wash at 6 to 10 % ABV, racked clean; fill two-thirds; heart in 200 ml jars; 10 l at 8 % gives about 1 l at …