The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-11-16
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The lD.plIcl.y OF Our lDrinI<..

Our fluids are, if possible, even more abused
than our solids. The great brewers, 1t is true
do not adulterate, but the moment their beer
and stOuts get into the cellars Of the publican tn
mischief begins. The brewers druggist is trade
which has sprung ont Of these falsifcations. Al
q rule, water is the great adulteration as regard.
quantity, but in order to give strength and "bite
to the liquid, salt and Tobacco are often added
and in case of porter, sugar. 1t is doctored for
flavor in hundred ways; quassia is used to give
it bitter, capsicum and caraway seeds to give
it warmth, oyster shells to renew the youth in
old beers, and alum to give a touch of age tonew
beer. To make fine froth to stout that has
grown fiat, there is liquid sold in the trade as
beer.headlings. This abominable brew is COM
posed of common green vitriol, alum, salt, and
bits of steel Our advice to beer-drinkers isnev-
er to get their liquor from public house. That
which you get from the brewers (and small casks
can always be obtained from the largest houses)
is always pure, and possesses several degrees
more strength than Won can ever hope to get from
the Golden Lion, around the corner. Spirits
especially gin-are we'll know to be favored ac-
cording to the taste of the neighborhood. The
poorer the quarter of the town the stronger and
most biting must the gin appear in the mouth.
Water is, of course, largely added-in many cas-
es to full fifty per cent. Never mind with the
addition of favorings, such as oil of cinnamon,
it is competent to warm the cookies of the hearts
of the wretched, draggle.tailed women who i'm
bibe it.
We might Justly have mentioned among the
articles that we rely upon to combat disease
wine, that powerful tonic, which is now surpass-
ing all others in treatment of depressing COM
plants This article Of social life has been for
turtles grossly adulterated, and that which gen.
orally given at the public dispensaries is motor
iously the most adulterated of all, because the
cheapest. We may say absolutely that there is
no such thing as pure port or sherry imported
into this country. From Internationally to thir-
ty per cent of spirits is always thrown into it to
give the "body" Englishmen are asserted to re-
quire. This admixture kills anything like fine
favor, of course, and to bring it up to the deep
color demandedl(we are speaking OF port,) jerupe-
ga, a mixture of syrup, sugar and elderberries is
added. We may add that the Portuguese will no
more drink what we expressly order to be made
up for us and call port" than the Chinese will
drink the colored green tea they manufacture to
suit our market The sherries are equally man.
ufactured: they are no more like the natural
wines of the country they come from than they
are like backing. Dispensary port and sherry
is, however, far inferior article to this. These
so-called wines are either cheap red and white
wines favored to initiate port and sherry, or they
more often are the product of the north of Ger.
many, where of course vines do not flourish
But of what matter is that? man can always be
found equal to the occasion, as the following ad
vertisement will show, which appeared in the
Times on the 29th Of last September, and which
we have no doubt called forth the partner in.
quired for. '..
DARTNER WANTED-A PRACTICAL DISTILLER HAV.
ing been experimenting for the last seventeen years
can now produce fair port and sherry by fermentation with
ont drop of the gapeuice and wishes party with from
sZoO TO $1,000 capital to establish house In Hamburg for
the Manufacture Of wines Has already good connection in
business. Apply To-
With this pretty specimen of the unblushing
manner in which fraud in food and drink is car.
ried on in this country, I think had better con-
clude.-LOndon Correspondence.