By the early 19th century, the introduction of increasingly restrictive manufacturing regulations, access to resources, and the engineering of sequential compartments for distillation reshaped the distilling industry, as steam boilers permitted continuous closed systems that revolutionised production efficiencies, leading to higher volumes.
After their country won the War of Independence in 1783, American distillers lost access to cheap copper globallyAmerica until after Prohibition, when the copper beer columns with doublers completely replaced the wooden chambered charger stills.
