But Tito’s isn’t “handmade” in the same way it was in the early days, when it was being produced on a single 16-gallon pot still by Tito, and it hasn’t been since at least the mid-aughts.

The alchemy of time and wood After distillation, the “hearts” fraction (which is clear and resembles water) is placed in a charred oak barrel for the aging process.

Pot Stills: A Primer Most whiskey made in pot stills is either double distilled or triple distilled. Each time a whiskey is heated, condensed, and collected, we call that a distillation.

Column stills, on the other hand, are used for both single-grain and blended scotches. Resembling tall architectural columns, they're much more efficient at distilling alcohol than pot stills ...

Diffusers, he argues, are better at preserving fruity and earthy notes and diminishing cooked agave notes. Likewise, Cuervo utilizes both pot stills and column stills for distillation.

Again, the pot still likely plays a role here. Flavor-wise, this is offering huge impressions of very nutty cocoa bean and mint, along with medicinal cherry, molasses and vanilla.

Knowledge distillation enables large AI models to transfer their expertise to smaller, more efficient models using “soft labels,” enhancing scalability and deployment in resource-constrained ...