Depending on your aesthetics, a pot still is a beautiful sight: all that gleaming copper, curvaceous shapes and a neck ascending proudly. It’s a shame we can’t also see what’s happening within, though even if a camera could be operated inside a pot still the numerous reactions that take place would hardly all be visible. At least the changes that occur are evident when comparing what goes in, to what comes out of a pot still.
“I’m a pot still girl,” says Joy Spence, Appleton Estate’s celebrated master blender. “I love the funkiness of it, and it’s just so complex and intriguing.”
Distillation is a natural focal point, but each stage of the production process also depends on its predecessors. Without fermentation providing the right opportunities, distillation wouldn’t be able to achieve…
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