double/doubling
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doubling noun The whiskey produced as a result of a second distillation. [DARE labels this term “chiefly South Midland”]
1914 Arthur Western NC 273 When a sufficient quantity has been produced, the mash is removed from the still, and it is washed out, after which the “singlings” are poured into the still and evaporated, passing through the worm a second time, thus becoming “doublings,” or high proof whiskey. 1974 Dabney Mt Spirits xxi doubling liquor = whiskey run through a copper pot still twice, which produces a proof of well over 100. Sometimes known as high wines or “doubled and twisted whiskey.” 1992 Gabbard Thunder Road 150 The first time they run the mash, it was pretty poor. They called it “singlin’s,” 50 or 60 proof, something like that. They’d pour it back in the mash or give it to young boys who worked the still because it was weak and they wouldn’t get drunk as quick. When they ran it the second time, they was called “doublin’s.” That was the moonshine they sold.
double (also double back) verb In making whiskey: to strengthen by adding the singlings of an earlier distillation run to the mash of the next distillation and then its vapors through a copper coil or condenser, giving the whiskey higher proof and making it smoother.
1959 Hall Coll (Del Rio TN) You double it back and you run it again. Then you get your good whiskey, which the old people called “corn squeezin’s.” 1974 Maurer and Pearl KY Moonshine 117 double = to remash in the same place, in the same vats, using the slops from the preceding distillation as a part of the mash. “We doubled back and made a good run.”