Gandharan still
From The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails
is an ancient form of clay pot still, developed in what is now Pakistan, in which the alcohol vapor is drawn off through a tube from the bulbous still head to condense in a cooled receiver. It survived into the twentieth century in some parts of India. See also distillation, history;, arrack, coconut.
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A traditional Sri Lankan arrack still, in the Gandharan style.
Wondrich Collection.
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A traditional Sri Lankan arrack still, in the Gandharan style. Source: Wondrich Collection.
This definition is from The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails, edited by David Wondrich (Editor-in-Chief) and Noah Rothbaum (Associate Editor).