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A process for producing a consumer spirit beverage such as vodka is disclosed comprising the production of ethyl alcohol and polished water from whey permeate from a cheese making process. The spirit (vodka) is therefore made from the milk originally used in the cheese making process. The process involves the conversion of whey into whey permeate via sieving, separation, pasteurisation, filtration and reverse osmosis, followed by fermentation of the whey permeate, and addition of the polished water (obtained by filtering the whey permeate by reverse osmosis) to produce the spirit.
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