Distiller

Someone who distills hard liquor.

“All through the years of Prohibition, the favorite bootleg drink in the New Jersey hills where he had his country estate was ‘Jersey Lightning,’ a harsh but authoritative applejack that had been distilled locally for generations before Prohibition and, of course, had continued to be produced massively though inconspicuously in those well-wooded hills and valleys—then still remarkably remote and unpopulated—without the blessing of law. Incredibly (or so we can say in hindsight), this urbane and sophisticated man came to believe that after repeal Jersey Lightning would capture the fancy of the whole country, and become a standard national drink like Scotch or bourbon; and to make it a still more attractive investment prospect, the stuff had the great commercial advantage of requiring very little aging to be potable, or as potable as it would ever be.”

John Brooks, Once in Golconda (1970).