The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-19
TRICKS IN LIQUOR TRADE
Seven Year Old Whiskey Can
Be Made in Week.
A BEAD TO FOOL JUDGES
More Profit In Water Than in Whiskey
and 1t Is More Harmless-Ninety
Per Cent OF the Lquor Is
Doctored

celebrate Christmas in the usual way
and then swear off on New Years day,
are able to say that they have been
liquor and have not been insulting their
stomachs with rank limitations?
ut is claimed that so per cent. of the
liquor sold on the market to-day has
never been in a distillery,' said we'll
known Butte dealer yesterday.
The statement was made during a
discussion Of a letter he had received
fered to sell him a few secrets of the
business by which he could make for
tune in few days and be absolutely
independent of the whiskey trust and
it's distilleries
II can give you information how you
may take a barrel of high wines and
manufacture any number of liquors
equal to the best domestic or import
ed" says the man of secrets, land by
following my directions you can make
any kind Of liquor at home without the
use of any apparatus, and you Will be
able to give your customers much
purer and better goods at lower cost
to yourself
According to the Michigan man. who
says he has been in the liquor business
all his life and talks from experience,
anybody can make 7-year-old whiskey
In a week, and can put bead on any
liquor that will fool the best Of judges.
BY the use of beading oil" per-
feet bead can be produced to any low
proof liquors simply by adding an
ounce of oil to about 40 gallons of re-
duced liquor. You should know how
to do this, asyyou can profit by adding
little water to proof goods and still
have 1t hold its bead" the saloon man
is informed.
There is more profit in water than in
sumer, while he will be just as well
satisfied If he doesn't know any better.
The trick of aging liquor. according
to the man who Is willing to reveal the
secret, has always been considered a
high art and the knowledge has made
great fortunes for the whiskey trusts.
ANY dealer can give to new liquors the
soft, velvet taste of Old goods, equal to
several years storage, in a few min
utes.
why" inquiries the man who knows
1t, will dealers buy them and pay out
large sums of money these hard times
when they can be made at 81 per gal
Ion less than they can be purchased
from the wholesale dealers and recti-
fiers in this country or abroad?"
1t Is a dead easy trick to make BRAN
dies, WHISTLES, gins, runs, bitters, cor
dials, wines and syrups, and as proof
that he knows what he is talking about
the. man of many secrets tells the
dealer to make some fine cognac brandy
as follows: Forty gallons of proof spir-
its, one pint of chemically pure glycer-
inc, eight ounces of cognac essence, and
sugar coloring enough to suit
All the French and other cordals can
be made with very little trouble and
expense. 1.-THE wholesaler has been
growing rich off you for years by using
foreign names and fancy labels marked
Imported The articles are easily
made, however. and you can also mark
your product imported and there is
no law to prohibit it. Look a the for
tunes that are made in the business
Don't continue to let other people grow
rich off of you, but learn how to make
the same goods at half the COST
Angelica, Catawba, claret, Malaga,
Madeira, muscat, port, Rhine, sherry,
gooseberry, currant. elderberry, whor-
tleberry. damson, apricot, mulberry.
raspberry. blackberry, apple, grape and
orange wines can be made at 25 cents
a gallon, and as for such syrups as
blackberry, cherry lemon, orange, nee
tarine, orgeat, peach. pear, pineapple,
strawberry, sarsaparilla and others,
they can De maze at praCLlCdlly no
cost. What is the use of buying
syrups and paying large prices for
them when you can make them at a
great saving of money and in less
time says the letter. "A dollar saved
is dollar earned The knowledge of
how to do this means dollars in your
pocket instead Of the wholesalers"
1t is said that a dealer can initiate
or compound any grade of whiskey,
brandy gin or rum that Is found in
commerce from any corresponding
stock he may have on hand, equal to
any grade from the cheapest to the
most expensive that can be bought In
this or any other country, and at cost
Of from SO to $50 barrel less than
it can be purcha sed.
Who wouldn't be a liquor dealer?
The next man behind the bar who
tells you there is no profit in the bust
ness Is entitled to horse laugh.
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