The column still was invented in Europe during the Industrial Revolution and was patented in 1831 by Ireland’s chief excise collector, Aeneas Coffey. Unlike traditional pot stills, column stills run continuously. You pump stuff into one end and booze comes out the other. Column stills can be enormous: there are stills which produce way more than a million gallons/year. For a ton of information, type “Aeneas Coffey” in your search engine. Here's a pretty good overview of how distillation works.

 

You can make good product on a column still, but we believe that truly great spirits come from pot stills.

Guess what? Oil refineries were originally adapted from column stills. In fact, the first oil refinery was actually a vodka distillery in Ulaszowice, Poland.

what about multiple distillation?