Spirit safe III

Spirit safe III

The spirit still takes as its starting point the contents of the low wines and feints receiver. This is a tank containing the low wines that have emerged from the wash still, together with the unwanted products from the last run of the spirit still itself. The result is a mixture of about 28% alcohol by volume.
Fundamentally, the job of a still has changed little since the days when every farmhouse in the Highlands could boast its own. Different constituent parts of the mixture have different boiling points, and the spirit that will later become malt whisky starts to boil only after a number of undesirable parts of the mixture have boiled off and before other, equally undesirable, parts of the mixture begin to boil. Having boiled in the still, the vapour makes its way out of the top of the still (often after condensing and falling back many times within the neck of the still itself) and along a lyne arm leading into the still's condenser. This cools the vapour and converts it back into a liquid, before channelling it to the spirit safe.