Christian Carl (CARL GmbH)
From The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails
is a manufacturer of stills and distillation equipment. First established in Göppingen, Germany, in 1869, the company split into two competing companies in 1916, one headed by the founder’s son Christian Carl and the second by Christian’s brother, Jacob, with both companies working with the brewing and distilling industries. In 2002, Jacob Carl GmbH declared bankruptcy and was acquired by its longtime competitor, and in 2008, Christian Carl Ing GmbH relocated to the neighboring industrial park of Eislingen and rebranded as CARL GmbH. The company provides equipment and services to industrial distilleries as well as smaller distilleries, and Carl stills and equipment are used by many research and craft distilleries worldwide. Indeed, the firm’s Capel-style hybrid stills, where the vapor from a pot still can be fed into a separate rectification column if needed, are a modern craft distillery staple. See Capel still, still, hybrid.
CARL website. https://carl.info/de/ (accessed September 13, 2016).
By: Paul Clarke
This definition is from The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails, edited by David Wondrich (Editor-in-Chief) and Noah Rothbaum (Associate Editor).