The French wine and liquor manufacturer : a practical guide and receipt book for the liquor merchant being a clear and comprehensive treatise on the manufacture and imitation of brandy, rum, gin and whiskey with practical observations and rules for the manufacture and management of all kinds of wine by mixing, boiling, and fermentation, as practiced in Europe including complete instructions for maufacturing champagne wine, and the most approved methods for making a variety of cordials, liqueurs, punch essences, bitters, and syrups ... / by John Rack.

  • Rack, John.
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[1868]
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Credit: The French wine and liquor manufacturer : a practical guide and receipt book for the liquor merchant being a clear and comprehensive treatise on the manufacture and imitation of brandy, rum, gin and whiskey with practical observations and rules for the manufacture and management of all kinds of wine by mixing, boiling, and fermentation, as practiced in Europe including complete instructions for maufacturing champagne wine, and the most approved methods for making a variety of cordials, liqueurs, punch essences, bitters, and syrups ... / by John Rack. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PART V 1J [. A New Process by which to make Cheap Wines by Fermentatioh, as Practiced in France and Germany, and also Adopted by the large Wine Manufacturers in New York, with Diagrams SHOWING HOW TO MAKE THE NECESSARY APPARATUS. In presenting the following pages to the trade, the author has but one object to achieve, and that is the benefit of those who labor in the field in which he has spent the best part of his life. He has only to say that what he knows with regard to the making of approved stimulating beverages, he has set down in plain shape and form, so that all may read and understand. The process by which to make cheap wines, described in the pages which follow, is Ms discovery, and Ms alone. It was discovered during years of occupation as a manufac- turer of wines in continental Europe and this country also, and is now given for the benefit and guidance of those who have been paying others large per centages Jbr doing what they may do themselves. By the process we describe, wines equal to the best of the inferior grades of imported grape vines can be manu- factured at very little comparative cost and not much trouble, and they will be found, when tested, to compare more than favorably with what are called cheap imported wines. Whether the wines procured from abroad are genuine or not (and we assert that most of them are not), those made by this new process, the author claims, are genuine, inasmuch as they comprise and embrace a repre-