On 9/9/2013 9:10 AM, Ed Huntress wrote:

Yes, I've done it, with a fancy laboratory reflux still made of 100%
glass, distilling ethyl alcohol (you blow off the fusel oil and light
aromatics,

When I was a kid I remember my father gently shaking his new bottle of
"Kentucky Springs" Bourbon. He said it was to mix the fusel oil. Is
that true? Is fusel oil in better bourbon? (Kentucky Springs is pretty
crappy bourbon)