HOME-MADE WHISKY.

Taihape Daily Times, 7 August 1919, Page 8

HOME-MADE WHISKY.

TOMA'I‘O—JU.ICE RECIPE ‘FOR “DRY” U.S. The coming of national prohibition is lleralded in the United States Patent Office by a remarkable increase in applicatiorxs for patents for devices obviously intended for the private mmiufacture of alcoholic beverages. Stills by the score are being invented, and with ’c_honl the Patent Office is receiving formulas for 100 -new patent medicines, the essences of fruit products from which alcohol may be distilled, and tonics properly medicated according" to recognised S'CZlJl(lal'(l‘S, ‘but conhaliming '.7percent;ages of alcohol, opium, and other drugs.

The uniform f'e-atures of ‘the inunmerzxble temperance drinks for which patents are demanded is their susceptibilify ‘lto “pr.opel' 'tl'eatment” in pi-ivate stills. The most popul;a.r apparatus employed in this connection is one which requires no technical knowledge. It may be packed into an ordinary 'travell’ing ‘tru-nk‘. and ferments and distills either malt or spirituous beverages. , “7Whisky” and “rum” are ‘now being widely made from tomato juice, molasses, yeast and Water, fermented in barrels from six to nine days, and then distilled. One formula. cells for three gallons of molasses, ‘?"_° 01"? you»:t, thirty-eight’ of tomato Juice! “W 1 fifty of water.