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How To Make A Spirit Resemble Jamaica Spirit Out Of Rye Whiskey
This is done precisely in the manner laid down in the receipt for French
brandy.
How To Make A Resemblance Of Holland Gin Out Of Rye Whiskey
How To Order And Fill The Singling Still When Distilling Rye
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Hops
Give a preference to hops of a bright green colour, sweet smell, and have a gummy or clammy effect when rubbed between the hands or fingers. CCHAPTE RSECTION V. ...
How To Build A Malt Kiln In Every Distillery
When setting up your stills, leave a space of about nine inches for a small furnace between the large ones, extend it to your chimney and carry up a funnel, there-from to the loft, then stop it--here build the kiln on the loft, about 4 or 5 feet squ...
How To Choose Malt
Malt is chosen by its sweet smell, mellow taste, full flower, round body and thin skin. There are two kinds used, the pale and the brown--the pale is the best. ...
How To Clarify Whiskey &c
Take any vessel of convenient size, take one end out and make it clean, by scalding or otherwise; bore the bottom full of holes, a quarter of an inch in diameter--lay thereon three folds of flannel, over which spread ground maple charcoal and burnt ...
How To Distil Apples
Apples ought to be perfectly ripe for distillation, as it has been ascertained from repeated trials, that they produce more and better spirit, (as well as cider), when fully ripe than if taken green, or the ripe and unripe mixed--if taken mixed it w...
How To Double And Single Peach Brandy
The same process must be observed in running off peaches as in apples, except that the singling still ought not to be run so fast, nor so much fire kept under her, and more water used to prevent burning. ...
How To Double Apple Brandy
Fill the doubling still with singlings, and add a quart of lime, (which will clear it) put fire under her and bring her to a run briskly--after she runs, lessen the fire and run her as slow as possible. Slow running will prevent any of the spirit fr...
How To Fill And Order The Singling Still When Running Apple Singlings
When you perceive your apples ready for distilling, fill the singling still with apples and water; using about half a hogshead apples in a still of 110 gallons, the residue water, first having cleaned the still well, and greased her previous to fill...
How To Judge When Apples Are Ready For Distilling
Put your hand down into the hogsheads amongst the apples as far as you can, and bring out a handful of pugs--squeeze them in your hand, through your fingers, observe if there be any core, or lumps of apples un-digested, if none, you may consider the...
How To Make A Brandy Resembling French Brandy From Rye Whiskey Or Apple Brandy
Clarify the whiskey as the above receipt directs, after thus purifying, add one third or one fourth of French brandy, and it will be then found strongly to resemble the French brandy in taste and smell--and if kept a few years, will be found more sa...
How To Make A Resemblance Of Holland Gin Out Of Rye Whiskey
Put clarified whiskey, with an equal quantity of water, into your doubling still, together with a sufficient quantity of juniper berries, prepared; take a pound of unflacked lime, immerse it in three pints of water, stir it well--then let it stand t...
How To Make A Spirit Resemble Jamaica Spirit Out Of Rye Whiskey
This is done precisely in the manner laid down in the receipt for French brandy. ...
How To Order And Fill The Singling Still When Distilling Rye
Scrape, clean, and grease the singling still, fill her up with beer, and keep a good fire under her, till she be warm enough to head, stirring her constantly with a broom, to prevent the grain from sticking to the bottom or sides, and burning, which...
How To Order Apples In The Hogsheads
When the apples are ground put them into open hogsheads to ferment, taking care not to fill them too full, or they will work over; set them under cover, as the sun will sour them too soon, if permitted to operate on them, and by his heat extract a c...
How To Prepare Peaches
Peaches like apples ought to be equally ripe, in order to insure an equal and regular fermentation--for where ripe and unripe fruit are thrown into the same hogshead, and ordered for distillation in this way a disadvantage is sustained. I therefore ...
How To Prevent The Plastering Round Stills From Cracking
This method of making water proof plastering on stills, is done entirely in making the mortar, and putting it on, in making which, good clay and lime are absolutely necessary. When the mortar for the first coat is thoroughly worked, put as much b...
How To Renew Yeast When Sour
About two hours before you begin to make your beer, take one pint of the sour yeast, put it into a clean dish or vessel, and pour clean cold water over it--changing the water every fifteen minutes, until the acid be extracted, have it then in readin...
How To Work Apples Slow Or Fast
If the hogsheads ripens too fast for your stills, add every day to each hogshead four gallons cold spring water, putting it into a hole made in the centre of the apples, with a large round stick of wood; by thus putting it into the centre of the hog...
Malt
Cannot be ground too coarse, provided it is done even--there ought to be no fine nor coarse grains in malt, but ground perfectly alike, and of the same grade. If ground too fine, it will be apt to be scalded too much in mashing. Malt does not requir...
Mash As Follows
Have sweet hogsheads, good yeast and clean water in your boiler; when the water is sharp, warm, or half boiling, put into every hogshead you mean to mash at the same time, six, eight or as many gallons of the half boiling water, as will completely w...
Mode Of Chopping Rye And The Proper Size
The mill stones ought to be burrs, and kept very sharp for chopping rye for distillation; and the miller ought to be careful not to draw more water on the wheel than just sufficient to do it well, and avoid feeding the stones plentifully; because in...
Mode Of Managing The Doubling Still When Making Whiskey
Let the doubling still be carefully cleaned and washed out, then be filled with singlings and low wines left from the run preceding, add thereto half a pint of salt and one quart of clean ashes, which will help to clear the whiskey, and a handful of...