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Early evidence of distillation was found on Akkadian tablets dated c. 1200 BCE describing perfumery operations. The tablets provided textual evidence that an early, primitive form of distillation was known to the Babylonians of ancient Mesopotamia. [5]
The process of distillation spread from the Middle East to Italy, [32] where evidence of the distillation of alcohol appears from the School of Salerno in the 12th century. [ 25 ] [ 54 ] The works of Taddeo Alderotti (1223–1296) describe a method for concentrating alcohol involving repeated fractional distillation through a water-cooled still ...
Early evidence of distillation comes from Akkadian tablets dated c. 1200 BC describing perfumery operations, providing textual evidence that an early, primitive form of distillation was known to the Babylonians of ancient Mesopotamia. [16]
History of wine. Hellenistic mosaics discovered close to the city of Paphos depicting Dionysos, god of wine. Wine boy at a Greek symposium. The oldest evidence of ancient wine production has been found in Georgia from c. 6000 BC (the earliest known traces of grape wine), [1][2][3][4] Iran from c. 5000 BC, [5] Greece from c. 4500 BC, [6][7 ...
An alcoholic beverage (also called an adult beverage, alcoholic drink, strong drink, or simply a drink) is a beverage containing alcohol (ethanol). Alcoholic drinks are typically divided into three classes— beers, wines, and spirits —and typically their alcohol content is between 3% and 50%. Many cultures have a distinct drinking culture ...
The earliest records of the distillation of alcohol are in Italy in the 13th century, where alcohol was distilled from wine. [14] An early description of the technique was given by Ramon Llull (1232–1315). [14] Its use spread through medieval monasteries, [16] largely for medicinal purposes, such as the treatment of colic and smallpox. [17]
Steam distillation is a separation process that consists of distilling water together with other volatile and non-volatile components. The steam from the boiling water carries the vapor of the volatiles to a condenser; both are cooled and return to the liquid or solid state, while the non-volatile residues remain behind in the boiling container ...
Producers of legitimate absinthes employ one of two historically defined processes to create the finished spirit – distillation or cold mixing. In the sole country (Switzerland) that does possess a legal definition of absinthe, distillation is the only permitted method of production. [63]