om the
still--let the funnel be a little broader than usual, cover it with two
or more layers of flannel, on which place a quantity of finely beaten
maple charcoal, thro' which let the singlings filter into your usual
receiving cask. When doubling, put some lime and charcoal in the still,
and run the liquor thro' a flannel--when it loses proof at the worm,
take away the cask, and bring it to proof with rain water that has been
distilled. To each hogshead of whiskey, use a pound of Bohea tea, and
set it in the sun for two weeks or more, then remove it to a cool
cellar, and when cold it will have the taste and flavor of old whiskey.
If this method was pursued by distillers and spirits made 2d and 3d
proof, it would not only benefit the seller, but would be an advantage
to the buyer and consumer--and was any particular distiller to pursue
this mode and brand his casks, it would raise the character of his
liquor, and give it such an ascendancy as to preclude the sale of any
other, beyond what scarcity or an emergency might impel in a commercial
city.

If distillers could conveniently place their liquor in a high loft, and
suffer it to fall to the cellar by a pipe, it would be greatly improved
by the friction and ebullition occasioned in the descent and fall.

SECTION VIII.

ARTICLE I.

_Observations on Weather._

Some seasons are better for fermentation than others. Should a hail
storm occur in the summer, the distiller should guard against cooling
off with water in which hail is dissolved, for it will not work well.

If a thundergust happens when the hogsheads are in the highest state of
fermentation, the working will nearly cease, and the stuff begin to
contract an acidity. And when in the spring the frost is coming out of
the ground, it is unfortunate when the distiller is obliged to use water
impregnated with the fusions of the frost, such being very injurious to
fermentation--Those changes and occurrences ought to be marked well, to
enable a provision against their effects. This will be found difficult
without the assistance of a barometer, to determine the changes of the
weather--a thermometer, to ascertain correctly the heat of the
atmosphere, and to enable a medium and temperature of the air to be kept
up in the distillery; and from observation to acquire a knowledge of the
degree of heat or warmth, in which the mashing in the hogsheads ferments
to the greatest advantage, and when this is ascertained,