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Archival watercolor illustration of a two-column Coffey continuous still, interpreted from an 1877 technical diagram and not drawn to scale.
Equipment

Column still

A column still is a distillation apparatus built around one or more vertical columns. Its continuous and rectifying designs appear in several spirits traditions, but materials and product character vary by installation.

Distillation apparatus
Trinidad and Tobago
An open reddish-brown fired-clay hatti pot for setting Sri Lankan mee kiri curd, shown empty on a warm ivory background.
Equipment

Sri Lankan curd pot

An open fired-clay pot holds Sri Lankan buffalo curd while it sets and travels to market. Sources document both hand-thrown and moulded forms.

Jars, pots and crocks
Sri Lanka
Historical illustration cutaway of a broad-bodied dark earthenware fermentation pot surrounded by soil, representing a buried-vessel method reported for asava and arishta.
Equipment

Asava and arishta earthen vessel

An earthen fermentation pot documented in Ayurvedic asava and arishta preparations. Studies in India compare pot and non-earthen vessels; field research in Sri Lanka records both earlier buried pots and later, varied factory practice.

Jars, pots and crocks
India