The malt distiller is not allowed to furnish, under a heavy penalty, any crude or raw spirit to the rectifier or manufacturer of gin, of a greater strength than seven per cent.
Get from yourdistiller an empty puncheon or cask, which will contain about 133 gallons.
If a distiller entered his stills as the law required, he was sure to be visited by a masked mob.
It was drawn against a distiller named Miller, whose house was fourteen miles from Pittsburgh, on the road to Washington.
He was a distiller and engaged in mercantile pursuits.
Like his father he was a Distiller and engaged in mercantile pursuits.
Was she actually on the point of being allied through the child of her bosom to a distiller and brewer--a man who had grown rich on the ruin of thousands of his fellow countrymen?
The distiller was to her as the publican to the ancient Jew.
The brewer was to her a moral pariah; only a distiller was worse.
But the Macruadh looked upon the calling of the brewer or distiller as from the devil: he was not called of God to brew or distil!
And he knew that his books would be evidence against every distillerin the city.
He admits that in order to carry out this scheme he knew that every distiller would have to sign a lie every time he made a report to the Government.
The distiller lived, as he had told him when they first met, on Holborn Hill, where he had great storehouses and drove a large trade.
The light oil of the tar-distiller has now been sufficiently dealt with so far as regards colouring-matters; let us pass on to the next fraction of the tar, the carbolic oil.
The small fraction that comes over up to this temperature constitutes what the tar-distiller calls "first runnings.
Thence results a rapid production of spirit, operated in a short time; whilst that of the rum distiller languishes more or less, and a slow fermentation wastes part of the spirit which it produces, even as it is forming.
If the principles hereafter developed are followed, the trade of distillerwill acquire great advantages, that will spread their influence on agriculture, and consequently on commerce in general.
The rum distiller usually puts 10 gallons of molasses to 90 gallons of water, or the residue of the preceding distillations.
Now, as every fermentable liquor requires open vessels, the hogshead of the rum distiller loses as much spirit as that of Lavoisier: hence it is plain how far the above proportion operates to the disadvantage of the fermer.
The rum distiller employs advantageously the residue of his preceding distillation, to give a fermentation to his new molasses: this residue has within itself enough of acidity for that purpose.
But the brewer aims only at producing a sort of wine, and succeeds; while, the distiller wants to make spirit, and only obtains it in the manner the most expensive, and opposed to his own interest.
Grains yield two kinds of vinous liquors, of which the distillermakes spirit, and the brewer a sort of wine, called beer.
Thence is seen how inferior the proportions of the whiskey distiller are to those of the brewer, and how far they are from good theory.
A distiller may at pleasure convert his whiskey into gin.
Let us proceed to those of thedistiller of whiskey.
Mr. Bradley, after a careful calculation, estimates that "somewhere between the distiller and the consumer in this country forty millions of dollars are lost; this goes primarily to the attempt to secure trade.
The distiller who makes whiskey for a market under the government of inspection laws, too weak, sustains a loss of a cent for each degree it may be under proof .
Before I adopted this method I kept four fires agoing, and made about the same quantity of whiskey, consuming about four and an half cords of wood per week, and was obliged to have the assistance of an additional distiller per week.
Tho' sometimes necessity requires that a distiller should mash it for a day or two, when any thing is the matter, or that grain cannot be procured.
The following method is calculated for a furnace of either two or four feet long, and with the bottoms exposed, or on an arch as the distiller may fancy.
Should a hail storm occur in the summer, the distiller should guard against cooling off with water in which hail is dissolved, for it will not work well.
This I deem the most profitable mashing that a distiller can work, and if he can get completely in the way of working corn and rye in this proportion, he will find it the easiest process of mashing.
But the typical secret whisky-distiller has no commercial instincts.
The little shoot lives on sugar and the maltster and distiller conspire to steal that sugar intended for the baby plants and turn it into alcohol.
The distiller mixes the malt with warm water, whereupon the diastase commences the conversion of the starch of the grain.
We do not learn what line of argument the distiller adopted, or whether the prohibition of liquor in houses of prostitution influenced his zeal.
Behrend (who has written on Prostitution in Berlin), the leading spirits of this agitation were a clergyman, and a distiller who had a brewery and spirit-store in the vicinity of the Koenigsmauer.
Jones, a wealthydistiller of Old Street, now determined to try the question.
What should an old distiller know of landed property?
You have stuck by this wicked distiller of vile liquids through thick and thin.
By the British laws a distiller is not allowed to brew and distil at the same time but he must work alternately, one week, for instance, at fermentation, and next week at distillation.
The distiller of malt whiskey calculates on obtaining two gallons of proof spirits from one bushel of malt, in average years.
The English distiller is bound by law to make his mixed worts to be let down into the fermenting tun of a specific gravity not less than 1.
The malt of the distiller should be as pale as possible, because with the deepening of the colour an empyreumatic principle is generated.
The produce of worts so imperfectly fermented, is probably little more than one half of what the British distiller draws from the same quantity of grain.
Indeed the law prohibits the addition of any wort to the tun at a later period than 24 hours after it is set; so that if bubs are used afterwards, the distiller is apt to incur a penalty.
From experiments carefully made upon a considerable scale, it appears that no more than four-fifths of the soluble saccharo-starchy matter of the worts is decomposed in the best regulated fermentations of the distiller from raw grain.
Such articles as are added to the fermenting wash of the distiller are distinguished by this trivial name.
But the cheapness of labour and of grain, as well as the superior flavour of the Schiedam spirits, enables the Dutch distiller to carry on his business with a respectable profit.
If the quantity in the wash charger exceeds the quantity in the wash back, the distiller is charged upon the higher quantity; if it contains less, he must pay according to the wash back, as being the larger quantity.
The distiller had the strongest interest in the business, and he usually came off victorious.
But the pertinacious distiller was still flourishing; permits were forged; concealed pipes were fabricated; and the proportion between the wash and spirits was seldom legal.
The distillerof that time had passed away and his son reigned in his stead--the youth who had decorated the barrels with the red chalk-marks.
The distiller was deeply interested, but incredulous.
No sooner did the distiller observe those lurid hieroglyphics upon the barrels than he uttered a shout of delight.
The usual sympathy for the illicit distiller ceased utterly, destroyed by hatred for the criminal's final offense.
He has called the brandy-distiller a poison-brewer, and a few days ago the distiller came to the parsonage, armed with a heavy stick.
The poor illiterate distiller and father desired to give his son his name but not to assign him his place in life, not his own road; he named him Alexander and he wished him to be not a distiller but a physician.
At the first note, the distiller pricked his ears.
It chanced, some time in the past century, that the distiller was on terms of good-fellowship with the visiting officer of excise.
Tomorrow you will be an English distiller with a forest you could get cheap near your works.
For fifteen minutes Willis waited, and then he saw the distiller leave the refreshment room and walk slowly down the platform.
We grant the distiller a license, and it allows him to distill any quantity up to the figure the license bears.
Then calling up the two constables, the four officers followed the distiller into the first-class waiting room, where he had taken cover.
This second call lasted longer than the first, and a quarter of an hour had passed before the distiller emerged and reentered his taxi.
He met the deficit in return for a signed confession of guilt and an I 0 U for a sum that would have enabled the distiller to sell the other up, and ruin his home and his future.
For a moment the distiller seemed so overwhelmed with surprise as to be incapable of movement, and before he could pull himself together there was a click, and handcuffs gleamed on his wrists.
The distiller had engaged a private sitting-room for a business interview which was to take place at eleven o'clock on the following Tuesday between a Miss Coburn, a Mr. Merriman, and a Captain Beamish.
