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Between industries and establishments production from food and beverages, the distillery occupies an important place since it is the space where different types of alcoholic beverages can be produced from beginningbasic distillation. Generally, distilleries are large factories that require not only a large space, safe and controlled, but also very specific machinery and implements that are not seen in other factories or types of industries.

Distilleries work on the basis of the principle of separating liquids that boil at different temperatures. In this way, in a distillery liquids such as Water and the alcohol Since both have different boiling points (being that of water at 100 ° and that of alcohol at 78 °), when one of them vaporizes first (the alcohol) and then recondenses, the concentration of alcohol in the total liquid will be much more important. This process (known precisely as distillation) is used especially for high alcohol content beverages such as whiskeys, spirits or tequila, among others. To carry out this process, a type of distillation is normally used that is known as simple distillation, although in some cases fractional distillation can also be used, a more complex system but just as cash.

Although distilleries are factories and companies like any other, it is also true that nowadays they are especially interesting for tourists from different parts who come to one region famous for a certain alcoholic beverage. Thus, many distilleries in typical areas in some type of beverage include guided tours in which the giant stills, thermometers and still tubes while the workers are seen in the process of elaboration. Many of these distilleries also offer a retrospective in which they show what tools and elements were used in other times to indicate technological changes. Finally, some of them also offer free samples of the products that are made in the plant.