2022-01-10 When visiting a Romanian at home, chances are you will be greeted with a glass ofțuică, the welcome drink par excellence. A strong colorless spirit made of plums, lately țuică is enjoying a higher profile and has been making its way into bars, leaving behind the humble, rural traditions the drink is
Read More 2022-01-07 The fractionating column can only work when the plates are holding a boiling mixture of water and alcohol. Drain the liquid away and the column becomes an empty pipe. That is why a part of freshly made alcohol is continuously redirected towards the column where it flows down on the top plate. Depend
Read More 2022-01-07 The discovery of distillation is generally attributed to Arab alchemists in VIII century Spain. From then on medicinal syrups were made with stronger alcohol. The actual process, however, was kept secret until 1286, when Montpelier University professor Arnold de Villeneuve described the first distil
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