Fusel alcohol
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Fusel alcohols or fuselol, also sometimes called fusel oils in Europe, are a mixture of several alcohols (chiefly amyl alcohol) produced as a by-product of alcoholic fermentation. The word fusel is German for "bad liquor".
In distilling Fusel oils express themselves in the tails. Fusel alcohols are also a component to Ester production.