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Capel still

From The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails

is a form of hybrid pot/column still used in Chile to make pisco. See pisco. It combines a cylindrical pot, topped with a globular still head, with a rectifying column through which distillate may be (but does not have to be) routed. It takes its name from Capel, the giant Chilean pisco-producing cooperative. See also still, hybrid.

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