1863 The manufacture of liquors, wines, and cordials

BEADS FOR LIQUORS.

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place of straw, to allow the filtration to progress freely through the filters. are all used for the pur- poses of giving body, age, and other desirable quali- ties to wines and liquors, and have been noticed under their appropriate heads. Perfectly transparent liquors can never be obtain- ed with indifferently prepared coloring. Standing first on the list, is brown or brandy coloring (carmel), or burnt sugar. This color is too often prepared from indifferent articles, viz. molasses and filthy sugar, and burnt to suit the convenience of the ope- rator, rather than a standard rule ; and when prepared in this manner, the best adapted strainers ever invent- ed would not effectually remove the .charcoal (from being over burnt), and other dissolved filthy impuri- ties that are to be found in the scrapings of refineries, sugar-houses,