The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-08-22

head great, hey?"
And my boss gave him big order
and I quit the job. On the level, it
went against the grain. I'd be serV-
ing this stuff-wood alcohol, all doped
up to conceal it to my customers and
they, thinking it was good booze,
paying fancy prices for it. Few are
the men who can tell a cleveIIy faxed
whfskey from the real stuff
There are wine takers, toe. One
| day when 7 was tending bar in 4
we'll known hotel, the manager sent
for ne With him was q, wine man
who was saying, Put in nay line Of
wines, and every price viii be 50
low that youm increase your profits. -
That sounded like false goods to me
and ! asked him how they did it.
oh. easy" he laughed We've
got some chemicals who are wonders.
They take little cheap California
wine, some water, some vinegar and
potato alcohol and turn you out a
bottle Of as nice a claret as you want
10 see We make our Rhine wine
and SauteTne by asing little real
sherry as a base. To this add cit1ic
acid, fannie acid (for the dry flavor
! alcohol and water--and there's your
Sauterne II you want a sweet wine
like ChabIis, we substitute white SUI
gar syrup for the fannie acid #
you want your vines aged we add {
little glycerine, although glucose does
the trick. too
! ] learned rom thar wine man that
brand was faxed by using wood al
cohol . base, adding silent spirit
and e;canthjc ether and coloring anu
sweereniog With caramel Cordials
were tahed 100. All the mixer did
aas 10 ice no his bottles of benzoic
ac.d. bac.oic ether, acetic acid and
etbe~ oenanthic ether and glycerine.
Ne 1sea = little cf eath added wood
or po+a alcohol. added few drops
Of .bocbi1eal aud there's your cherry
brandy FAKE booze. brought prohi-
oitioa
I'm going TO show up most Of the
brewer. toe: not all for some did
Try 10 make honest Deer Honestly,
thcnen in nay experience. drew
mighty little pure beer from the tap.
Pee should be made from fermented
! jufusions al malt fla*ofed with hops.
In Eu1ooe beer must be lagered,
stored for chree months. Few AM
erican brewerie5 could keep their
/ bee. . lager for three months. It
would 80 Dutrefy as 10 be worthless.
That is because many Of our brewers
used fecmept which was not inspect
ed by he government and was not
always pure SO their beer ferment-
ed JCttenly. TO oyercbme the putre.
faction, the brewers added arseDious
acid, white arseus or salicylic acid
which lattel when used a long time
did more narm to the kidneys and
/ liver than booze ever did
Tuck this away in your mind and
t.y lit you can get bottle OF
! bee7 for tde experiment. Pure beer
NJ r Kept Indefinitely, even in the
sun aooute beer left in the sun.
sight sor a few days win go crazy. "
The bugs in it, caused by rotten fer
mentation, viii, in the sunlight get
busy end rot the beer; and it will
burst ne bottle. Try it in the sun,
using q beer not bottled in brown
glass. FOR that is why some brewers
iuse brown glass botties-not caring
TO risk explosions.
Those then, are the drinks, honest
and false, which went down American
th1oats
Why dc oen drink? AS ! watched
and served met, it seemed to me
that they drank to lift themselves. "
The alcohol gave an exhilaration
that changed duTness and WEAKNESS
INTO false flashing feeling Of being
alive. Then Some drink for the
dreamy forgetfulness, a dangerous in.
difference to actuahties-a poisonous
and highly-prized mood for men to at
| tain. Men liked 10 drink together
because Of the way alcohol let down
the bars. l have seen timid men be-
come bold and men Of few words
hard boiled" fellows become voluble
takers. Men who went stark sober
could let themselves 60" men who
in dread OF convention, were utterly
different beings when they drank
which is why they drank. For alcohol