INGREDIENT OR SUBSTANCE FOR COLOURING AND FLAVOURING BEER, PORTER, AND OTHER SUCH LIQUORS, AND AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF SUCH LIQUORS RESULTING THEREFROM
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Randal Plunkett, of Belle Vue,
66
Dublin, in the
AN IMPROVED
County of Dublin, Ireland, Malster, for an Invention of
INGREDIENT OR SUBSTANCE FOR COLOURING AND FLAVOURING BEER, PORTER,
AND OTHER SUCH LIQUORS, AND AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF SUCH
LIQUORS RESULTING THEREFROM."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Randal Plunkett at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th June 1880.
JOHN RANDAL PLUNKETT, of Belle Vue, Dublin, in the County of Dublin,
Ireland, Malster. "AN IMPROVED INGREDIENT OR SUBSTANCE FOR COLOURING
AND FLAVOURING BEER, PORTER, AND OTHER SUCH LIQUORS, AND AN IMPROVED
MANUFACTURE OF SUCH LIQUORS RESULTING THEREFROM."
The object of my Invention is the substitution of a cheaper and more efficient
colouring and flavouring agent in the manufacture of beer and other such liquors
for the malt or sugar now generally in use for these purposes.
I find that maize or Indian corn prepared in a manner similar to the ordinary
barley malt, but with the addition of a solution of saccharine and water during the
roasting process, will produce as fine a flavour as malt, but a more brilliant and
sparkling colour; and by the use of this agent I am enabled considerably to reduce
the cost of the manufactured article.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Randal Plunkett in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 13th
December 1880.
JOHN RANDAL PLUNKETT, of Belle Vue, Dublin, in the County of Dublin,
Ireland, Maltster. "AN IMPROVED INGREDIENT OR SUBSTANCE FOR COLORING
AND FLAVOURING BEER, PORTER, AND OTHER SUCH LIQUORS, AND AN IMPROVED
MANUFACTURE of such LiqUORS RESULTING THEREFROM.”
The object of my Invention is the substitution of a cheaper and more efficient
coloring and flavoring agent in the manufacture of porter, beer, and other such
liquors for the barley, malt, or sugar now in use for such purposes.
I find that maize or Indian corn prepared by roasting in cylinders in a similar
manner to the ordinary barley malt, and with an addition of saccharine and water
during the roasting process, in the proportion of, say half a gallon, of said solution
to four quarters, will produce as fine a flavor as malt, and a more brilliant and
sparkling color, and by the use of this agont I am enabled considerably to reduce
the cost of the manufactured article.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
carrying same into effect, I would have it understood that what I consider new and
useful, and therefore claim as the Invention to be secured to me by the herein before
in part recited Letters Patent is,―
First. The employment of roasted maize, malted or unmalted, as a coloring and
flavoring agent in the manufacturo of porter, beer, and other similar liquors,
substantially as set forth.
Second. The manufacture of porter, beer, and other similar liquors, in the
production of which maize is used as a coloring and flavoring agent, substantially
as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Randal Plunkett, have hereunto this
my Specification set my hand, and seal, this Eleventh day of December,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty.
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