BOOZE THE DRIVER. “Wine, after all, was an obvious early example of the ability of natural substances to act on human bodies, and the effort to isolate the particular principle responsible for these effects drove much of the push toward distillation associated with early modern alchemy. Alembics, cucurbits, and stills all sought to separate the more volatile (and intoxicating) elements from the more inert.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022