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To Clarify Stained Gin

being careful to stir it up well, and in one week it will be found to be perfectly purified.

This method must not be tried when the gin to be purified is much below proof, as in that case the potash and alum will combine with the water in the spirit, and impart to it a still more disagreeable flavor. There is also another objection to be urged against this fining, and that is, -the potash sometimes becomes attracted by the oil of juniper (for which it has an affinity) and necessarily saponifies the latter. In nine cases out of ten, however, the above recipe will answer the desired purpose, and thus we recommend it.

To remove the Blackness from Gin.

RECIPE No. 13.

Some gin has a particular blackness; to remove which, take 1 oz. of pulverized chalk, and 2 or 3 oz. of isinglass, dissolved; put this into your gin and it will become transparent. The above is enough for 50 gallons. The blackness which gin sometimes contracts by coming in contact with iron, may also be carried down by putting a solution of 2 oz. of isinglass and 1 quart of skimmed milk into the spirit. When the color is very black, which will happen by merely an iron nail having fallen into the liquor, there is no remedy, but to have the commodity distilled over again. To Clarify Stained Gin.

RECIPE No. 14.

When gin has once become much stained, the only remedy is to redistill it; when it is only slightly stained, the addition of a few pounds of acetic acid to a pipe or butt, a spoonful or two to a gallon, or a few drops to a decanterful, will usually decolor it.