WHAT IS WHISKY?
BRITISH FIRMS LOSE CASE. The decision that whisky is of generic character, not bound up with a definite locality, was announeed in a recent law suit brought by six well known British Distillery firms against a Berlin distiller who called his products "whisky." The court based its judgment on the views of several German experts and on the statement of the plaintiffs, who admitted that "whisky of full quality was being produced outside the Britsh Isles — for instance, in Canada, Australia and Africa." It was held that the German distiller was entitled to call his productions "whisky," since the drink was made on the same lines as the British.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 284, 26 July 1932, Page 7
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112WHAT IS WHISKY? Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 284, 26 July 1932, Page 7
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