1857 The Bordeaux wine and liquor dealers' guide

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A TREATISE ON

Many manufacturers suppose that all that is ne– cessary to produce a perfect Gin, is to use juniper oil or berries freely, in connexion with a proper pure spirit ; but they have ever f(loiled to produce the results desited. The great number of receipt.a that have been pub– lished in books and otherwise, from time to time, have never been used successfully : some of them produce a flavored spirit, but it bears no resem– blance to the genuine. .Any person may satisfy himself of this by actual experiment. The cause of these continual failures has been, that the writers had J.10 practical knowledge on the subject; hence the continuous attempta and failures that have suc– ceeded each other with those who have experi– mented from these receipts. " The materials .employed in the distilleries of Schiedam are, two parta of unmalted rye, and one part of malted ' bigg,' the former weighing 54, and the latter 87 lbs. to the buehel. The tnash tub~, which serve also as the fermenting tubs, have a capa– cityof700 gallons each, being about 5 feet in diameter at the mouth, rather narrower at the bottom, and 4i feet deep ; the stirring apparatu~ is a long rectan– gular iron grid, made fast to the end of a woOden pole. About a barrel (86 galls.) of water, at a tem– perattlfe of' l6~ 0 tQ 168° 1 is :put ·\Qto the mash tun,

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