1863 The manufacture of liquors, wines, and cordials

CLARIFYING WINES AND LIQUORS.

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Alum is used in the proportions of four to five ounces per hundred gallons. Being finely pulverized, alum is incompatible with the '"beading mixture." Liquors that contain starch, mucilage, &c., should not be " fined" with alum. Wheat flour is sometimes used in the form of paste with water one pint per one hundred gallons. and cut it in two pieces (diagonally) from one corner to the other, and sew up the two edges, thus forming a triangle-shaped bag ; then sew a hoop of suitable size in the mouth of the bag, and fix a suitable handle of rope or twine. If all the coloring matter, arid fluids used to impart coloring to liquors, was sufficiently strained and filtered, finings would be rarely, if ever, used ; the hurried manner in which color makers manage their business, using inferior materials, and taking advantage of all the " tricks of trade" that may be sug- Coloring derived from such a source as this must entail a vast deal of unnecessary labor and ex- pense upon the manufacturer. The manufacturers of coloring should be provided with all kinds of filters, Filtering Bags. Take a square yard of Canton flannel, gested.

and purify their color-

cleanse

&c., -to

strainers,

ing of its own and foreign matter. As good color is one of the principal essentials of all good liquors,