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A TREATISE ON
Many manufacturers suppose that all that is ne–
cessary to produce a perfect
Gin,
is to use juniper
oil or berries freely, in connexion with a proper
pure spirit ; but they have ever f(loiled to produce
the results desited.
The great number of receipt.a that have been pub–
lished in books and otherwise, from time to time,
have never been used successfully : some of them
produce a flavored spirit, but it bears no resem–
blance to the genuine. .Any person may satisfy
himself of this by actual experiment. The cause of
these continual failures has been, that the writers
had
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practical knowledge on the subject; hence
the continuous attempta and failures that have suc–
ceeded each other with those who have experi–
mented from these receipts.
" The materials .employed
in
the distilleries of
Schiedam are, two parta of unmalted rye, and one
part of malted ' bigg,' the former weighing 54, and
the latter
87
lbs. to the buehel. The
tnash
tub~,
which serve also as the fermenting tubs, have a capa–
cityof700 gallons each, being about 5 feet in diameter
at the mouth, rather narrower at
the
bottom, and
4i
feet deep ; the stirring
apparatu~
is a long rectan–
gular iron grid, made fast to the end of a woOden
pole. About a barrel (86 galls.) of water, at a
tem–
perattlfe
of'
l6~
0
tQ 168°
1
is :put ·\Qto the mash tun,
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