On DVD, Meyers' audience will fast-forward to the next hot scene featuring a naked copper pot.

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To make it, fresh milk from grass or hay-fed cows within a 20km radius is poured raw into a copper pot and heated until it begins to curdle.

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The streets are filled with music and parades, hundreds of guests dine among the copper pot-stills in the cavernous distilleries and local shopkeepers decorate their stores to reflect the thriller theme.

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Distillation occurs in two separate copper pot stills.

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The guides, like those at Maker's Mark, stress the use of traditional methods: the slow fermentation of sour mash in vats made of cypress, the distillation in copper-pot stills (Labrot and Graham use three instead of the usual two), the regular sampling of barrels by discriminating imbibers with decades of experience, to achieve just the right taste.

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To achieve that "particular quality, " most craft distillers employ variations on small-batch pot stills, the kind of homey, copper kettle--looking devices you find at single-malt scotch distilleries, as opposed to the giant, continuous-process column stills of the big-volume liquor brands.

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