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Title: The Practical Distiller
An Introduction To Making Whiskey, Gin, Brandy, Spirits,
&c. &c. of Better Quality, and in Larger Quantities, than
Produced by the Present Mode of Distilling, from the Produce
of the United States

Author: Samuel McHarry

Release Date: April 29, 2007 [EBook #21252]

Language: English

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THE

PRACTICAL DISTILLER:

OR

AN INTRODUCTION TO MAKING

WHISKEY, GIN, BRANDY, SPIRITS, &c. &c.
OF BETTER QUALITY, AND IN LARGER QUANTITIES,
THAN PRODUCED BY THE PRESENT
MODE OF DISTILLING, FROM THE PRODUCE
OF THE UNITED STATES:

_SUCH AS_
RYE, CORN, BUCK-WHEAT, APPLES,
PEACHES, POTATOES, PUMPIONS
AND TURNIPS.

_WITH DIRECTIONS_
HOW TO CONDUCT AND IMPROVE THE PRACTICAL
PART OF DISTILLING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES.

_TOGETHER WITH DIRECTIONS_
FOR PURIFYING, CLEARING AND COLOURING WHISKEY,
MAKING SPIRITS SIMILAR TO FRENCH
BRANDY, &c. FROM THE SPIRITS OF RYE,
CORN, APPLES, POTATOES, &c. &c.

_AND SUNDRY EXTRACTS OF APPROVED RECEIPTS_
FOR MAKING CIDER, DOMESTIC WINES, AND BEER.

BY SAMUEL McHARRY,
OF LANCASTER COUNTY, PENN.

PUBLISHED AT HARRISBURGH, (PENN.)
BY JOHN WYETH.
----1809.----

DISTRICT OF _PENNSYLVANIA_,

TO WIT:

[Illustration: SEAL.]

Be it remembered, that on
the twenty fourth day of November,
in the thirty-third year of the Independence
of the United States of
America, A. D. 1808, SAMUEL McHARRY,
of the said district, hath deposited in this
Office, the title of a Book, the right whereof he
claims as author, in the words following, to wit:

_The Practical Distiller: or an introduction to making
Whiskey, Gin, Brandy, Spirits, &c. &c. of
better quality, and in larger quantities, than produced
by the present mode of distilling, from the produce
of the United States: such as Rye, Corn, Buckwheat,
Apples, Peaches, Potatoes, Pumpions and
Turnips. With directions ho