Improvements in and relating to spirit drinks

摘要

A method of producing a potable spirit by fractionally distilling a matured spirit into a plurality of fractions and recombining portions of some of the fractions to produce a potable spirit having a different composition from that of the matured spirit. Portions of the unvolatilised residue left behind during fractionation are included in recombination. The blended portable spirit may be stored and treated in the same way as a matured spirit. Apparatus for producing a portable spirit comprises a still (A) where the matured spirit is distilled, light fraction passing into a rectifying column (B), a condenser (C), fractions coming off at different temperatures passing into fraction storing means (D), the unvolatilised residue left in still (A) being cooled and passed through a filter (F) into a residue vessel. The fractions are blended in mixer (G).