The Lambertville record., 1926-09-02


Ting with each other to the death and sinking to the
bottom of the contaner The "renatured" alcohol is
then poured Off but analysis have shown that almost
always there remains sufficient trace of the poison
put in by the government to make the subsequent
beverage" dangerous for drinking purposes
Buffalo Deaths Typical
How dangerous is shown by the recent wholesale
deaths in Buffalo from ."eoroners cocktails
The redstilng of alcohol is all part of the effort
of bootleggers to cut down expenses that their huge
profits of the first years may be repeated With grain
alcohol almost impossible to get with any regularity
in large quantities. the Cooking of the poisoned alcohol
is immeasurably easier and profitable than the
manufacture of moonshne Eight gallons of grain or
fruit mash required to make three gallons of aco
hol. One gallon of redisted denatured alcohol makes
three gallons of whisky
1t is the redistlled alcohol almost exclusively with
which Scotch whiskies smugged into the country are
being cut In the process the bootleggers for each
gallon of whisky add five and half quarts of dis
titled water. half pint of creosote is put into the
mixture to preserve the "smoky" flavor Then ad-
ded six quarts of redsted alcohol, teaspoonfu of
ether, and drop of distiate of Scotch.
Labels, Stamps in Market
Of rye and bourbon whiskies there are almost none
from government bonded warehouses Two ways have
been found to make Them The first is to dstil them
as moonshine the second to manufacture them syn
thetcaly, To make rye the bootegger may
distilled alcohol caramel burned sugar for cooring
synthetic ethers for favorng and fuse oil soap
bark to give it bead. Given a gallon of real rye he
adds gallon and half of distilled water gallon and
half of redistled alcohol colorng matter, bead oil
and essence of rye for favoring
The moonshne whskes, green as they are, are bet
ter than the cut whskes with their high proportion of
mperfecty redistilled denatured alcohol chemists say
The rye is mashed in the moonshining process
1t is scaded with the residue of previous dstiation
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Water is used to dilute it.
The resultant "soup9 is boiled in copper still
which causes the to pass through copper worm
immersed in cold water. This condensation of
the alcohol The latter should be distilled again, but
booteggers can't wait any such prolonged pro-
cess The moonshne is placed in charred barrels for 5
days 1t is then deemed have "aged" and is bottled
and sold
"sets" of Scotch and rye and bourbon bottles cost
the trade from SIS to $40 dozen. labels attached
Counerfeited government stamps for the bottles may
be purchased.
There than so formulas for denatured al
cohol They contain such poisons sulphuric acid
ether aceone brucine nicotine and pyridne The boot
leggers receive their supplies by setting pretense
of being in the SOAP perfumery dye barber supply
business. As a rule they conduct such business
sdeine in order to get the alcohol With ample
supply of cooked" or redstiled alcohol hand, a
bootegger is prepared to produce any kind of faxed
liquor desired.
The recipes for all are the same They vary only in
the essence. Brandes sold by bootleggers made
for the part from appeack bought from farmers
and docored with essences sugar water and redisted
alcohol.
There appears to be but genuine drink to be
had 1t is beer Federal officials admit there is plenty
of good beer be bought in blind pigs. Much of it
being brought in from Canada and Mexico. But many
breweries are also manufacturing it illegally.
State Gazette.