WHISKY FOR SHELLS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLII, Issue 84, 28 April 1916, Page 1

WHISKY FOR SHELLS.

Hi. Hon. D. Lloyd George (British Minister for Munitions) has intimated to all firms of whisky distillers who use patent, .still.s that they will be taken over by the Government for war work until the end of the war. The distilleries are required for the production of certain' of the ingredients of explosives, a.nd will he administered by the Ministry of Munitions. The distillers, who will receive, compensation for the use of their works. view the change with some measure of equanimity. It i.s .stated that the stocks of whisky in bond are quite sufficient to supply the normal consumption in the country lor at least three years. "In the year ended March last," said the Minister, "there were distilled in Scotland 25.U00.000 gallons, and there were in .stock 113,000.000 gallons. Should the war last as long as some people anticipate, the retail price oi whisky may rise to 10s per Iwttle, and possibly more." There are two kinds of stills. The pot still is the old "way by which the fermented liquor obtained from the barley is boiled in a pot. The escaping vapor passing through a pipe i.s cooled and condenses as spirit, but if is impure and has again to be distilled. The patent still is a complicated apparatus which, with the application of steam, works quickly and requires no second distillation.