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[CarlosM]

I'm going to say an eisbock remains a beer thru the "eising" process. Like Denny said it's just a concetration, distilling to me involves a still.

[chuck_d]

So distillation is just concentration, like..., um, freeze distilling? What exactly are we calling this? But as far as I can tell all definitions of plain old "distillation" are a method of concentration that involves turning a liquid into vapor and then condensing it. While eising (maybe that's what I'll use) is a method of concentration that involves turning a liquid into a solid. From my point of view, both distillation and eising can be done to a beer and you still have beer. You use eising to increase the final alcohol content, and you use distillation (sort of) to decrease the alcohol content (you take advantage of the differing vapor pressures and you can "boil" off the alcohol and create alkoholfrei bier). Both processes impact flavor, not just ABV.There comes a point, though I love to brew "to style", that I stop trying to categorize everything and just grab another pint.