Aeneas Coffey

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aeneas Coffey
This article or the following section is not adequately provided with supporting documents ( e.g. individual evidence ). Information without sufficient evidence could be removed soon. Please help Wikipedia by researching the information and including good evidence.

Aeneas Coffey (* 1780 in Calais , France , † November 26, 1852 in England ) was an Irish tax officer and engineer in Dublin . He improved in 1831 by the distiller Robert Stein ( KilDestille ) 1826 in the Lowlands developed for continuous distillation used column still (called distiller also Coffey-, patent or Continuous Still). He had initially offered his distillers to Irish whiskey distillers, but they turned it down. With Coffey's invention it was possible for the first time to produce large quantities of whiskey inexpensively. This whiskey is called grain whiskey and is the basis for blended whiskey.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gilbert Delos: Les Whiskeys du Monde. Translation from French: Karin-Jutta Hofmann: Whiskey from all over the world. Karl Müller, Erlangen 1998, ISBN 3-86070-442-7 , pp. 105 and 114.
personal data
SURNAME Coffey, Aeneas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish engineer
DATE OF BIRTH 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Calais , France
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1852
Place of death England