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Spirits & Distilling

water-bath still

From The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails

is a modification of a standard pot still, often used for distilling cordials, in which a separate vessel is placed inside the water-filled still pot (similar, in principle, to a double boiler or bain-marie). See also cordials, still, pot.

This definition is from The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails, edited by David Wondrich (Editor-in-Chief) and Noah Rothbaum (Associate Editor).