Vacuum distillation

Alcohol is boiled off under reduced pressure so the wine or beer never has to reach a kitchen-stove temperature.

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Spinning cone column

A thin-film vacuum column used to separate aroma and ethanol in stages. Common in wine industry language; less often explained on a back label.

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Reverse osmosis

Pressure drives the liquid through membranes that separate water and ethanol from a flavor concentrate, then the parts are reassembled without (most of) the alcohol.

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Membrane and cold filtration

Alcohol leaves through a filter, not a boil. Guinness 0.0 is the version of this story most people have actually tasted.

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Osmotic distillation

A membrane process that pulls ethanol across a hydrophobic barrier into a stripping solution, usually at or near room temperature.

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