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Crabe's avatar

We should remember about C13 norisoprenoids. We can take water, add ethyl alcohol and all these esters, aldehydes and higher alcohols. But we will not get anything like rum.

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Matt Pietrek's avatar

Oh absolutely. Distilled spirits chemistry is bogglingly complex. Viewing it in terms of VOCs is a very partial approximation, but which still has higher fidelity than ester levels in isolation.

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Crabe's avatar

Could you write about retort lees? We know how H.H. Cousins ​​proposed to work with this ingredient. But how distillers worked with it before him is very little known. I believe it may be of some importance.

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Nicholas Spagnuolo's avatar

Great info!

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