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Also known as [[tails]], or [[Aftershots|aftershots]]. The final [[Spirit|spirit]] from the [[Spirit Still|spirit still]] at the end of distillation. The feints are low in alcohol, and are often re-distilled.
Also known as [[tails]], or [[Aftershots|aftershots]]. The final [[Spirit|spirit]] from the [[Spirit Still|spirit still]] at the end of distillation. The feints are low in alcohol, and are often re-distilled.


Feints (or tails) can either be blended to varying degrees with the collected [[Hearts|hearts]] of the run to add flavor, or they can be added to the next spirit run of the same recipe.
Feints can either be blended to varying degrees with the collected [[Hearts|hearts]] of the run to add flavor, or they can be added to the next spirit run of the same recipe.


Feints can also be saved up until there is enough of them to [[Charge|charge]] up the spirit still, and run as an all tails run. All tails liquor, especially from [[Grain|grain]] [[Mash|mashes]], is usually strong on flavor when run through a [[Pot_still|pot still]]. All tail liquor can stand up to heavy [[Oak_barrel|oaking]] without being overpowered by the wood flavors.


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Feints is a loose term. In the US feints is synonymous with the tails. In Scotland feints refers to both the heads and tails. Other country's terms vary.  
 
Feints is the name given to the third fraction of the distillate received from the second distillation in the pot still process. They form the undesirable last runnings of the distillation. They are returned with the foreshots to the Spirit Still when it is recharged with low wines.
 
The term is also applied to the first and last runnings from the Patent Still, in which process they are returned to the wash for re-distillation.
 
The feints and foreshots from the last distillation of the season are kept for adding to the first low wines of the succeeding season.  


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Revision as of 18:22, 9 October 2017

Also known as tails, or aftershots. The final spirit from the spirit still at the end of distillation. The feints are low in alcohol, and are often re-distilled.

Feints can either be blended to varying degrees with the collected hearts of the run to add flavor, or they can be added to the next spirit run of the same recipe.



Feints is the name given to the third fraction of the distillate received from the second distillation in the pot still process. They form the undesirable last runnings of the distillation. They are returned with the foreshots to the Spirit Still when it is recharged with low wines.

The term is also applied to the first and last runnings from the Patent Still, in which process they are returned to the wash for re-distillation.

The feints and foreshots from the last distillation of the season are kept for adding to the first low wines of the succeeding season.

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