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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
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