South Bend News-Times, Volume 38, Number 252, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 9 September 1921 — Page 17

FRIDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 9. 1921

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Government Chemists Usually Can Tell Synthetic Whisky by Smell; Tests Show Ingredients

Secrets of "Hootch" Maker An Open Book Under Analyzing Processes. NEW TOltIC t'r-pt 8. Gee iv f the ""hootch" maker who mjmftu turti tynthetio TvklxVy or gin arc as s.n open boeJc to the rovemrnent caecnistB who test the producta of violators of tbe Volstead law. Evidence eelzol from nrm-ran-nerti aud 'bootlcxjg'ers la Drought to thera for exacalnatlon. Ilorv the chemical ter are conducted waa dlsclose-d today firylL A. Esoa, chief chemist of the g-ovemmeat laboratory la ths f extern! building-. The walls of his office are lined with ?hf!vt3 filled, with bottles of every kind and description containing f-rry kind of beverage forbidden by th9 Volstead act. A fringe of Ptills slrl In rai3fl decorate the top of th helven and there Ut a b!? pile of them In a corner. In the past year moro than 8,000 samples of liquor, rood, "bad and Indifferent, have been Uted here and the result produced later In ths federal courts. The first thins to be done by the chem'st when a wmple of supeted liquor Is brought In Is to tft It for alcohol. Usually the prohibition agents try to get at least half t pint of whisky and a pint of wine for the chemitts to work on. But occasionally an aent comefl in with a small bottle of liquid which, he explains, Is a drink of whisky which he bought at a bar and had to hell In his mouth until he could spit it out Into & bottle without" b ing observed by the barkeeper. And this la te-ted too. HydronwfsT UscL When the am-ple la hr?e enough the hydrometer Is used to find the amount of alcohol present. The hydrometer ts a thermo-meter-Hke Instrument of glws with the specific gravities marked on iL It fc floated in the sample and the markings read. Alcohol being lighter than water, the hydrometer pinks farther in & mixture of alcohol and water

than In plain water. The amount of t !.- Vi 1 fin tVin-s rr n r t 1 v rlo-I

termlned by reading the markings. Small samples of booze are tested by meana of the pyenamtter. A measurM Qiiir.tlty of tha suspected II quid Is wflhfl and iL weight compared with that of an equal Quantity of water. Ily means of a few computations the amount of alcohol can ertlly be found. For rapid vortc on beer and wine with small percentages of alcohol the ebulllometcr 13 used. The evidence Is heated and the boilln s paint learned. Water boils at 100 degrees oentirade and alcohol at a rrruch losver temperature. A mixture of alcohol and water bolls at a lower temperature thin water ar.l thus the chemlÄs can rapidly calculato the amount of alcohol. After the teet for alcohol has been completed In the case of whisky the color of the sample lt(ted. Whisky that h8 been held -In bond for some time has a color cf Its own due to the inside of the whisky barrels beIn? charred by fire before the whisky is put in. The manufacturing- bootlegger making: an artificial whirky of FTrala alcohol and water uses canimel made of burnt sugar to colov his product. The Maren, reaction shows if the color of the whlaky samplo iL genuine or artificial. A quantity of amji alcohol sllg-htly al5i.1ed with phosphoric acid is mixed with the Jiquld to be tested. Arnyl alcohol being lighter than ethyl alcohol, as ordln-

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color or Just plain "hootch."

"We can usually tell whether the

stuff Is g-enulne or not by Just milling of It," ho explained. The synthetic stuff has a distinct smell of raw alcohol which Is not present In genuine whisky no matter horr bad It may bo. "Lately we hare tested camples of ynthetSc gin. It is made of alcohol and water with a little oil of Juniper to give the chararterigtio gin flavor. But the Juniper flavor Is ranker than genuine &n nd i don't thirik any one geB much pleas-jre from drinking such stuff. The bootleggers usually put In too much of tha oil of Juniper. Thcro is some artificial wine

seized by the prohibition events. It Is usually made from alcohol and water flavored with fruit Juice of pome kind. The homemade wine that Is submitted for test Is very poor stuff. Usually there has been Insufficient fermentation of the grapes after they are pressed and sometimes putrefaction ha3 started. Buch wine will contain about 7 to 9 per cent of alcohol. lind Crcoeote In 'Scotch." ytot whiskies contain 40 to 50 per cent alcohol. Scotch whisky has ices alcohol than the other xrhiskles. "We have fooind mall Quantities of creosote In some of thj artificial

Scotch whlsklea that have ben seized. The creosote Is put In to Imitate the peat moke of the genuine article. "The mating: of homemade grape Juice Is dangerous from the standpoint of tho Volstead act unless precautions are taken to prevent fermentation and the consequent production cf alcohol. The best way Is to eterlllze the grraps by pouring1 hot water OTer them or by bot Uns the Juice. There 1 a wl!d yeajt preaent on the grapee and floating In the air at Exar-nckir.s tlmo and It is the wild yeaat that starts the fermentation."

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