WHISKY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 584, 12 August 1909, Page 5

WHISKY.

ONE. KIN© NO WORSE THAN ANOTHER. (By TeiograpH.-PfOßs Afi«bcl»tloo.-Ooorriaat.t. . London, Augnst 10. ,

The Royal Commission on whisky reporte ithut the evidence failed to establish that any particular variety of whisky was specially, deloterious. Neither tho modical, hospital, nor distillery evidence'blm wed that pot-stillod spirit was • necessarily moro wholesome than the patent-stilled.

EXCISE INSPECTOR'S EVIDENCE. In its intorim report, the Hoyal Commission on ' whisky had recommended: "That no r<>striotions should be placed upon the processes of, or apparatus usod in, the distillation of any spirit to which the term, "whisky may be 'applied as a trade description. , , • In his evidence before the commission last year, the Chief Inspector of Exoiso, Mr. A J, Tedder, said there were t%ro classes of blends, blends of pot-stilled spirits mado in difloront distillorlos and blends of post-etlllcd with patent-stilled spirits. The latter class of blond of blends of potstilled and patent-stilled spirits, The proper tions varied ironist per cout. of pot ana 95. of patent to 85 of pot and Ift of paionk lhese were all marked "blended," but fto Exciso had no power to hav© the proportions indicated. Scotch patent spirits cost la. M. or Is. <d. per proof gallon,-and Irish Is. 9d. or Is. lOd. per gallon 25 over proof. Pot-stilled Whisky, on the other hand. cost in Scotland 2s. 3d. to is. Zd. per gallon 11 over. proof, and in Ireland 3s. Id. to ss. per gallon 25 oral; proof. At tho end of last year there wero in the bonded warehouses of the United' Kifigdom 161,648,409 proof gallons of British whisky.- Th*i tonsumptioa had been decreasing slightly. British spirits had been going down sinCd 1900.. Ihcro had been a decreaso in every, year suirtl9oo wjtli one exception, the falliMotf in. the annual consumption during that time being from .95 proof gallons per head to .ii He thought a whisky drinker coiM tell tho difference between the taste of blended whisky with a large percentage of pot-stilled spif-lt and of that chiefly composed of pafent stilled, Thort \rere a different flavour and aroma. Pot-stilled whiskies differed from each other, but all had th«y pot-whisky flavour.