Use for equipment-history and system-fit synthesis. Invention dates, prevalence, and spirit-character comparisons remain tertiary and should be corroborated before precise drafting.
The entry recovers a once-common American still system and explains why its product and operating profile differed from both pot and continuous stills.
Wondrich describes the three-chamber still as a steam-driven intermediate between pot and continuous stills. Cheap construction, tolerance for thick grain mash, longer cooking, and a relatively heavy distillate made it widespread in nineteenth-century American whiskey—especially rye—before efficiency pressures and Prohibition displaced it.
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Still, three-chamber
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