are the world’s major distilleries such as Jim beam using this technology or are they still using the 200 year old pot still design?
Do not know about Jim beam , believe that they use old technology, but leading companies like Absolute use continuous stills for raw spirit production and fractional distillers (rectification columns) for spirit purification, note this one designed for home use, and yes this is rectification column. Comment: To start with this machine you need one fermenting vessel approx 30L- whatever plastic drum to make 20L of ferment at 12% alc (will give you 2L of 96% purified spirit=5L of 40 % vodka and total of approx 600ml of impurities where methanol, butyl alcohol and bunch of other aldehydes, everything separated from each other) , 100ml lab measuring glass and hydrometer from 10 to 100% plus some glass or plastic bottles ex cola OR 3L PLASTIC EX JUICE BOTTLES to collect spirit. Comment: basically you do not need carbon filter because you getting all your fractions separately (but IF YOU REALLY WANT super quality you can use flow through filter and filter your Vodka AT SPEED THAT THE FILTER
