What is National Craft Distillery Day?
National Craft Distillery Day, May 22nd, adds to the small-batch revolution on May 22nd. Recognizing the richness of distilled spirits, the industry followed in the footsteps of the craft brewers in establishing a market for themselves.
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Distilling has a long tradition in distilling
Spirit distillation has a long and influential history dating back to the Greeks. Some scholars trace the oldest documented wine distilling techniques back to Anaxilaus of Thessaly, Anaxilaus. Despite this, Rome banned him from practicing magic in 28 B.C. The Greeks followed this theory and discovered that if they boiled wine in an open container, the hot alcohol vapor escaped first. B.C. They caught the alcohol vapor next time.
The alcohol was detected inside the bowl as they slowly heated the wine in a vessel with a small mouth covered by a bowl. With the addition of a downward-slanted tube, the vapor cooled and collected in the receiving vessel, which was surprising. "To drip down" is the Latin verb destillare, which means "to drip down."
