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
Brandy Colbert Brandy Colbert Brandy Colbert is an American author of young adult fiction and non-fiction. Colbert was born and raised in the Ozarks, in Springfield, Missouri. The works of Dorothy West, Barthe DeClements, Jesmyn Ward, Colson Whitehead, and Zadie Smith were impactful to her writing career. She began working on what would be her debut novel, "Pointe", in 2009, inspired by reports of long-term kidnapping cases. Her debut young adult "Pointe", following a teen dancer in suburban Chicago who has to come to terms with her dark past, was published in 2014 by Putnam. It received a starred review from Publishers