Systems and methods for rehabilitating alcohol

1. A method for rehabilitating alcohol, comprising:

a) placing a quantity of ethanol solution in a pressure-controllable environment;

b) decreasing the pressure of the pressure-controllable environment to about 25 Torr;

c) holding the pressure of the pressure-controllable environment at about 25 Torr for a first predetermined period of time;

d) removing ethyl acetate from the ethanol solution to yield a first treated ethanol solution;

e) removing the first treated ethanol solution from the pressure-controllable environment;

wherein steps a) through e) occur at ambient temperature; and

wherein no distillation occurs during steps a) through e).

2. The method of claim 1 , and further comprising:

f) after b) and before e), cooling the pressure controllable environment.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the pressure controllable environment is

maintained at about 22 degrees Celsius.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the predetermined period of time is about 5 seconds.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first treated ethanol solution has about one-half the ethyl acetate concentration of the ethanol solution.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first treated ethanol solution has about one-third the ethyl acetate concentration of the ethanol solution.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first treated ethanol solution is a mixture of water and a distillate fraction, and wherein the distillate fraction has a maximum ethyl acetate concentration of about 0.05 weight percent.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first treated ethanol solution is a mixture of water and a distillate fraction, and wherein the distillate fraction has a maximum ethyl acetate concentration of about 0.03 weight percent.

9. The method of claim 1 , and further comprising:

g) removing at least one non ethyl acetate congener from the ethanol solution.

10. The method of claim 1 , and further comprising:

h) removing at least one non ethyl acetate congener from the first treated solution to yield a second treated solution.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the pressure controllable environment further

comprises:

a pressure vessel defining a pressure controllable chamber;

a water jacket at least partially surrounding the pressure controllable chamber and in thermal communication therewith;

a liquid inlet port in fluidic communication with the pressure controllable chamber;

a gas outlet port in fluidic communication with the pressure controllable chamber;

a vacuum pump in fluidic communication with the gas outlet port;

a collection vessel;

a liquid outlet port in fluidic communication with the pressure controllable chamber.

12. A method for removing unwanted congeners from an ethanol solution, comprising:

a) establishing a partial vacuum in a pressure vessel;

b) flowing a quantity of ethanol solution into the pressure vessel;

c) at least partially preferentially removing at least one unwanted congener from the ethanol solution to yield a treated ethanol solution;

d) extracting the treated ethanol solution from the pressure vessel;

wherein while in the pressure vessel, the ethanol solution remains liquid′;

wherein the partial vacuum is about 25 Torr;

wherein step c) is performed at about 22 degrees Celsius for about 5 seconds; and

wherein during steps a)-d), no distillation occurs.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the unwanted congener is ethyl acetate.