Aeneas Coffey (1780-1852) was born in Calais, France where he spent his early years. His family returned to Dublin (both his parents were Irish), where he was educated at Trinity College. He entered the excise servce around 1799-1800. He married Susanna Logie in 1808 and they a son also named Aeneas, who may have been their only child. Calais is a town in northern France, located at 50°57N 1°52E. It is in the département of Pas-de-Calais, of which it is a sous-préfecture. ... TCD can be used as: Chad, ISO 3-letter country code Trinity College, Dublin Thalamocortical Dysrhythmia The College Dropout, rapper/producer Kanye Wests debut album. ...

He invented the Coffey still, a revoluntionary distilling apparatus. Early Coffey stills produced 60% over proof spirit. Modern versions can achieve 66-68% over proof, approximately 95.6% v/v pure alcohol. As alcohol forms an azeotrope with water at this concentration, it is impossible to achieve higher purity alcohol by distillation alone. A column still also called a continuous still, patent still, or coffey still is a variety of still that consists of two columns. ... Ethanol, also known as ethyl alcohol or grain alcohol, is a flammable, colorless, slightly toxic chemical compound with a distinctive perfume-like odor, and is the alcohol found in alcoholic beverages. ... This article needs more context around or a better explanation of technical details to make it more accessible to general readers and technical readers outside the specialty, without removing technical details. ...

See also

• List of inventions named after people
• List of alumni of the University of Dublin