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A building whose entire job is to break up with water.
means A facility where fermented liquid is heated and condensed to concentrate its alcohol into spirits like whiskey, gin, or rum.
from From 'distill,' tracing back to Latin 'distillare' — 'de-' (down) plus 'stillare' (to drip), from 'stilla' meaning a drop. The whole image is quite literal: vapor rising, then falling again drop by drop through a cooling tube. The suffix '-ery' just marks the place where the dripping gets done, same pattern as 'bakery' or 'brewery.'
- the science
- alcohol boils at 78C, water at 100C — separation by patience
- the shape
- copper pot stills remove sulfur compounds that taste like rotten eggs
- the legal line
- distilling your own spirits at home is illegal in the US
- the irony
- monks pioneered distillation to make medicine, then kept the booze