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Coffey still

From The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails

, an elaboration of Cellier-Blumenthal’s column still patented by Irishman Aeneas Coffey in 1831, revolutionized the British spirits industry by making continuous distillation commercially viable. See also Cellier-Blumenthal, Jean Baptiste; Coffey, Aeneas;, still, continuous.

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