Lol . One run through a reflux still is once distilled . It is not hundreds of times distilled . It outputs alcohol vapor like any other kind of still , it just produces it a little more efficiently . Vodka is strip distilled , bourbon is not because there ' s no reason for it . You ' re using Effen as a source , which is pretty fucking hilarious . Never mind the literal thousands of other distilleries that make multiple runs . A reflux tower is run hard , it outputs 3050 % ish alcohol . This is a stripping run . That alcohol is then thrown back in and circulated once more to bump it up to whatever the recipe calls for . It ' s done fast so the mash doesn ' t sour . This is twice distilled . Distilling twice is an industry standard because it ' s faster and helps shitty grain alcohol taste better . Trying to distill one large 800 gallon batch at 80 % is not economical . It ' d take far too long and the vodka would taste like mash . Effen just doesn ' t want to sound like every other distillery , so they spout off a bunch of argumentative shit . again , you don ' t know what you ' re talking about .