alembic

It’s distilled from Fijian sugar cane in both alembic and column stills and aged for no less than two years in bourbon casks on Fiji.

Minutes weren’t measured in seconds, but in “alembic time parsecs.”

The copper pot still, or alembic, sits behind the spacious bar like a shiny visitor from outer space.

In his chemistry lab, a short walk from the history department, the cabinets are full of alembics, retorts and other bulbous glass devices.

Although he relished putting his life into his art, he boiled life in his poet’s alembic at a pretty high temperature, and much of the who, when, and how was volatilized away.