The French wine and liquor manufacturer : a practical guide and receipt book for the liquor merchant being a clear and comprehensive treatise on the manufacture and imitation of brandy, rum, gin and whiskey with practical observations and rules for the manufacture and management of all kinds of wine by mixing, boiling, and fermentation, as practiced in Europe including complete instructions for maufacturing champagne wine, and the most approved methods for making a variety of cordials, liqueurs, punch essences, bitters, and syrups ... / by John Rack.

  • Rack, John.
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[1868]
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Credit: The French wine and liquor manufacturer : a practical guide and receipt book for the liquor merchant being a clear and comprehensive treatise on the manufacture and imitation of brandy, rum, gin and whiskey with practical observations and rules for the manufacture and management of all kinds of wine by mixing, boiling, and fermentation, as practiced in Europe including complete instructions for maufacturing champagne wine, and the most approved methods for making a variety of cordials, liqueurs, punch essences, bitters, and syrups ... / by John Rack. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. Thertc have been several works published upon the manufac- ture of imitation or domestic Brandy, and other liquors. All of these have a certain degree of merit; but they are incomplete and very erroneous. In some, the recipes are incorrect, either from the formula not being graduated to the result desired, or from a misconception of the effects of certain materials. Others are little liable to this charge, but leave important omissions. And a few, again, recommend the use of ingredients which are deleterious, if Dot poisonous. The author of this book, whose practical experience of twenty years on both continents is some warrant for his ability, has endeavored to prepare a work which shall avoid these errors and deficiencies, and be standard author- ity on the subjects of which it treats. He has availed himself, in addition to his own knowledge, of a reference to all reliable information upon collateral points, which are to be found here and there through numerous volumes, and brought to bear the results of the labors of the most conscientious and careful chemists The manufacture of factitious liquors is, and will continue to be, practiced. It has its foundation in the impossibility, at limes, of obtaining the genuine article, and in the cupidity of