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Encyclopedia > Wash (distilling)

Wash is the ingredient of juice and rest of the fruit, grains, medicinal plants, corn, potatoes, pine cone etc. (the mixture is fermented) and through distillation we produce alcoholic drinks as Ţuică (mostly from plums), Raki (from grapes), Whisky (from grains), Gin and Fernet (from medical plants) Tequila (from pine cones) Vodka (from potatoes) etc. Å¢uică (in Romanian ), is a traditional Romanian alcoholic beverage, usually made from fruit (mostly plums, but also apples or cherry plums), or from the leftovers (lees) remaining from wine making, in which case its called Å£uică de borhot. ... Scotch whisky Whisky (or whiskey) (from Irish uisce beatha and/or Scottish Gaelic uisge baugh, both meaning water of life, and ultimately a calque derived from Latin Aqua Vitae (see below)) is an alcoholic beverage distilled from grain, often including malt, which has then been aged in wooden barrels. ... Gin and tonic This article concerns the beverage. ... Fernet Branca is a bitter, aromatic spirit made from over 40 herbs and spices, including myrrh, rhubarb, chamomile, cardamom and saffron, with a base of grape alcohol. ... Various brands of tequila Tequila is a strong distilled alcoholic beverage made primarily in the area surrounding Tequila, a town in the western Mexican state of Jalisco, 50 km from Guadalajara. ... Look up Vodka in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...


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Spirits - LoveToKnow 1911 (12394 words)
A distiller must give notice of the erection of new plant or apparatus, of the time of brewing, of the removing of sugar from store or of yeast from wort or wash, of the making of "bub," of the locking of the spirit receiver supply pipe, andc.
The residue in the wash still is termed "pot ale" or "spent wash," the residue contained in the wash, and secondly to rectify it.
The distillation is sometimes carried out with naked fire, but more generally by means of steam which is passed into the wash (termed "beer" in America), either in a free state or by means of a coil, and then collecting the spirit, after condensing and subsequently rectifying by means of a second distillation (termed "doubling").
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