Double Distillation

The stillroom is always the best place of a distillery for the simple fact that there is usually so much shiny copper and this is where that thick distillers beer is transformed into what some may call white lightning. Maker's Mark does not discriminate against either type of still and employ both a continuous column still and a more traditional copper pot still. The double distillation begins in the five-story column still that houses 16 plates for the liquor to drop down, down and down, until it reaches the bottom. The, now clear, alcohol that leaves this still is 120 proof.