“FIGHTING” WHISKY

Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1920, Page 3

“FIGHTING” WHISKY

EFFECTS OF MIXING U.S. AND SCOTCH. LONDON, Dec, 22.

There is considerable criticism in the wine and spirit trade of the results of blending American whisky with Scotch and Irish spirit. Much of tlie Kentucky whisky that arrived at th? U>mlon (lochs some months ago has been withdrawn from bond, but a considerable quantity remains in the open pud under cover at the docks. A good deal has been blended with the whiskies that are being shipped abroad in large quantities. “Largo quantities'of American and Canadian grain,” says the Edinburgh correspondent of Harper's Wine and Spirit Gagetto, “are now being advertised by retailers of sale in their bars. The public, however, are not taking kindly to these stocks of spirit. The unfortunate thing is that ‘Scotch’ is very scarce, and there is a feeling among retailers that the large distributing houses are holding up supplies.” THE CONGRESSMAN’S BOTTLE.

Commenting on the sale of Kentucky whisky, the Gazette says: “There must be some special properties attached to American whisky. The Glasgow police authorities complain that since the States went ‘day- and started sending their whisky to Scotland the number of persons round ‘fighting 1 drunk has much increased.

This bears out what was said in Congress some years ago during a debate on the adulteration of liquors. One. of the Kentucky members illustrated his speech by pulling a small bottle out of his pocket'. ‘The whisky in here,’ lie said, 'would turn a mule into a howling dervish and make a rabbit spit in a bulldog’s face.”