ILLICIT STILLS IN BRITAIN
HIGH PRICES CAUSE INCREASE.
LARGE SALES OF FIERY LIQUOR.
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.
London, Dec. 17.
Because of the high prices of spirits (whisky 12s 6d a bottle), the production of illicit still spirit has been increasing in industrial centres. Excise men rounded up culprits this year and seized 11 plants in England and Wales, 10 in Scotland and 89 in Ulster. The distilleries are difficult to discover. The usual practice is to confine the sale of the product within a restricted community. Investigations show that some small stills have been making a profit of £lOO a month. The illicit home-brewed whisky is a vicious, fiery drink, usually only a few days old. When sold it is often 65 per cent, overproof, compared with the fixed strength of 30 per cent, underproof whisky retailed legally throughout Britain.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1933, Page 5
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