What Is spirit in Alcohol?

What Is spirit In Alcohol?-A spirit is any type of alcoholic beverage which contains at least 20% ABV of distilled ethanol (ethyl Alcohol).

What Is spirit?

Description-

 A spirit is a bearable alcoholic beverage obtained from the distillation of an alcohol contained liquid. In distillation, all the alcohol can be separated from the liquid foaming pure alcohol. and during distillation time water is added to reduce its potency.

Classification of Spirit-

The classification is based on the source where they sugar to convert into alcohol. These classifications are...

1.      Grain-  (Barley, Corn, Maize, Rye) Whisky, Liqueurs

2.      Vegetable-  (Potatoes) Vodka

3.      Fruit-  (Sugarcane, Grape, Apricot, Juniper Berries) Rum, Brandy, Liqueurs, Gin,

4.      Herb-   Liqueurs, Bitters

What is Alcohol?

An odorless colorless, tasteless liquid containing either ethyl or methyl alcohol. Ethyl alcohol is portable but methyl alcohol is dangerous and used for industrial purposes only. Alcoholic Beverages contain Ethyl alcohol only.

What is an alcoholic beverage?

Any portable liquid by ethyl alcohol containing from 1%-75% ABV which Alcohol is obtained from the fermentation of sugar-based foods, or the distillation of fermented products.

Alcohol obtained process-

1.      Fermentation:-

Fermentation word comes from the Latin word "fermentare," meaning “to leaven.” basically sugar in grain is converted into alcohol by the action of yeast and bacteria by the subprocess Malting (after soaking the grain dying in a hot water). The degree of fermentation can be controlled.

2.      Distillation:-

Alcohol, which vaporized (steam) at a lower temperature than water, is trapped and condensed to a liquid by cooling...

There are two types of distillation process..  (a) Pot still Method  (b) Patent still method.

(a)  Pot still Method-

This is a process where copper pots with capacities around 1000 liters are heated over Brick Kilns. Copper does not react with alcohol, and it is a good conductor of heat. This process runs several till they release a vapor which is trapped in a cooling chamber cooled by coiled condensers fed with chilled water.

(b)  Patent still method-

Non-premium spirits are produced in this process. The fermented juice is passed through an 80-foot chamber that heats the juice with copper plates and its trickle to plate as drops. At the end of the process, the juice is hot and converted to vapor that is feed to a second chamber through pipes that receive the vapor and sends it through coiled condenser pipes that are cooled by refrigerated water till the vapor is converted to a liquid.

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