1863 The manufacture of liquors, wines, and cordials

OLD BOURBON WHISKEY.

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general rule these whiskeys are not to be highly colored.

OLD BOURBON WHISKEY.

one hundred gallons ; strong tea, one gallon ;

Starch filtered clean spirit,

water, twenty-five gallons ;

tincture grains of paradise, one gallon ;

thirty drops

dissolved in one ounce alcohol.

wintergreen oil,

OLD BOURBON FOR BOTTLING.

honey, one gallon, dis- expressed juice of dried

Clean spirit, five gallons ; solved in half gallon water ;

two quarts ;

one ounce

sulphuric

acid,

peaches,

;

acetic ether, two

of

nutmegs, half pint ;

spirit

ounces ; oil of wintergreen, four drops, well rubbed This is colored with half a pint of the tincture of cochineal, and the same of burnt sugar. If the sulphuric acid should be objec- tionable, a quart of common vinegar can be added The object of the acid in liquors, has been fully ex plained under the head of Acids in Liquors. When it is desired, these liquors can be manufac- tured at a low figure by the filtering process, and the free use of pellitory, tea, and grains of paradise. These inferior liquors should be well colored, and in neat packages and neatly marked. For directions up in sugar, and added.