Topic summary
Distiller
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Distillation.
Modern era
In 1500, German alchemist Hieronymus Brunschwig published Liber de arte distillandi de simplicibus (The Book of the Art of Distillation out of Simple Ingredients), the first book solely dedicated to the subject of distillation, followed in 1512 by a much expanded version. Right after that, in 1518, the oldest surviving distillery in Europe, the Green Tree Distillery, was founded.