tails
From The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails
, known in Scotland as “feints,” are the parts of the distillate that come off a still after a cut is made to separate them from the desirable hearts. Tails are either discarded or redistilled in a later run. See cut; distillation, process; and heart.See cut; distillation, process;, heart.
This definition is from The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails, edited by David Wondrich (Editor-in-Chief) and Noah Rothbaum (Associate Editor).