SEPARATOR "BREW."

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XL, Issue 9197, 7 January 1920, Page 5

SEPARATOR "BREW."

The San Bruneisco Chronicle reports from ji centre appropriately enough Jiiiuwn as "Warm Springs":— "Joy looms unrefined on rural horizons through the discovery to-day by Pstnquale Siiveri, a local dairyman, that running- apple- cider through a cream separator gives a liquor .with a 9,3 per cent wallop to it. There is talk of erecting a statue of Siiveri in 'honor of his discovery. The dairyman's process "is simplicity itself. .The separator, as everytarmei' knows, works on the principle of centrifugal force. The heavy particles of cream are whirled way from the milk and-collected. Siiveri reverse* the process with the cider, whirling the. heavier components away from xiio alcohol. ■The latter comes away a clear, amber liquid, with a millionaire's dream in every drop. s . '"W'hisky experts are of the opinion thai the new drink is outside ot Federal prohibition control, as it is not mamilacturcd by a process, but is a natural product evolved from the commercial handling of a finished article. There is said to be little loss in the transition, approximately five gallons of eidor nroducing, a puit of the new '"liquor. " 1 As a result .of Silveri's discovery, farmers all over the country, have started buying apples by. the ton to run tlirough tiieir cream separators in anticipation oi' the coming dry winter. •The; dairyman discovered' the liquor purely by accident, when ho -ran the cider through his machine to purify it. When ho drew off the liquid he tasted it. Then he took a quick look up the road, and run for a demijohn. After it-was. ■ bottled, he called in the neighbours, and the party was on."