Brandy used to distill brandy: A cucurbit was filled half full of the liquor from which brandy was to be drawn and then raised with a little fire until about one-sixth part was distilled, or until that which falls into the receiver was entirely flammable. This liquor, distilled only once, was called "spirit of wine" or "brandy". Purified by another distillation (or several more), this was then called "spirit of wine rectified". The second distillation was made in "balneo mariae" and in a glass cucurbit, and the liquor was distilled to about one half the quantity. This was further rectified as
What About Us? (Brandy song) back to life with the force and devastation of a tortoise being plucked from the airing cupboard and set on fire: this rocks hard, it’s the tippest of the top, it gets better with every single listen, and it might well be Rodney’s best work since ‘Say My Name’." Somewhat critical with the track, his colleague Piers Martin found that "What About Us?" was "a slippery, twitching slab of computer funk that thrusts Brandy, fleetingly, into the 21st century, while Devon Thomas "The Michigan Daily" called it "guaranteed mainstream club play". Allmusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine ranked the song among his