The Practical Distiller - Softcover

McHarry, Samuel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1508441049 ISBN 13: 9781508441045

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

When I first entered on the business of Distilling, I was totally unacquainted with it. I was even so ignorant of the process, as not to know that fermentation was necessary, in producing spirits from grain. I had no idea that fire being put under a still, which, when hot enough, would raise a vapour; or that vapour when raised, could be condensed by a worm or tube passing through water into a liquid state. In short, my impressions were, that chop-rye mixed with water in a hogshead, and let stand for two or three days; and then put into a still, and fire being put under her, would produce the spirit by boiling up into the worm, and to pass through the water in order to cool it, and render it palatable for immediate use-and was certain the whole art and mystery could be learned in two or three weeks, or months at farthest, as I had frequently met with persons who professed a knowledge of the business, which they had acquired in two or three months, and tho' those men were esteemed distillers, and in possession of all the necessary art, in this very abstruse science; I soon found them to be ignorant blockheads, without natural genius, and often, without principle.

About this title

Product Description

a manual of spirits making from 1808.

About the Author

Samuel McHarry lived during the late 1700's and early 1800's. Not much is known about him, except that he wrote a book entitled "The Practical Distiller" which was first published in 1809.

Edition details

• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1508441049
• ISBN 13: 9781508441045
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 114