• Question: what does an alembic do

    Asked by anon-227029 to William, Thibaut "Tibo", Harry, Georgia, Emily, Aimee on 14 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Aimee Egglestone

      Aimee Egglestone answered on 14 Nov 2019:

      The greek distillation pot? It helps you to separate 2 liquids which are mixed, like water and alcohol for example. You heat up one of the pots which evaporates the mixture (turns it to steam), but then one of them will turn back into liquid on the journey from one pot to the other, so you end up with the separated liquids!

    • Photo: Thibaut Deviese

      Thibaut Deviese answered on 14 Nov 2019:

      It is often use to extract essential oils to make perfumes or to make alcohol. I used a very old one when I went to a gin school (for adults of course).

    • Photo: Emily Sparkes

      Emily Sparkes answered on 18 Nov 2019:

      This is a great question becuase now I’ve learned something too!

Comments