Another instance is that some of the companions permitted drinking muthallath wine;
- that is, the pure wine was boiled down to one third (thulthān) of its bulk
- and drunk, stating that it was held lawful (ḥalāl) this way.
- It is reported in Al-Mabsūṭ, that one of the dignitaries from among the companions did this
- [drank the wine] and was protested;
- and when he was told that fire does not cleanse anything, he responded:
- "O Fool! Isn't the vinegar first wine and then turns vinegar and then we drink it?!"
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http://www.hadithsciences.com/haditharticle.aspx?ArticleID=73
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a Shāfiī may reckon by Ḥanafī law, as regards drinking muthallath [wine
- boiled to a third of the original volume]:
- not punishable for Ḥanafīs
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"Islam: Chapter Three: The Law: Fiqh, Sharīa: 6. The Universality of ..."
http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/isl/isl22.htm
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"wine that has been boiled, until two thirds of it has evaporated
- (muthallath wine)"
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"Opium in 9-th century Baghdad"
exilope.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/pj_20031220_opium.pdf
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Bonus: http://thinkthink.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/alcohol-cooked-evaporated-halal-no/