The Art of Making Whiskey

Art of Making Whiskey, by
Anthony Boucherie

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Title: The Art of Making Whiskey So As to Obtain a Better, Purer,
Cheaper and Greater Quantity of Spirit, From a Given Quantity of
Grain
Author: Anthony Boucherie
Translator: C. M.
Release Date: May 24, 2007 [EBook #21592]
Language: English
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THE ART
OF
MAKING WHISKEY,
SO AS TO OBTAIN A BETTER, PURER, CHEAPER AND
GREATER QUANTITY OF SPIRIT,
FROM A GIVEN QUANTITY OF GRAIN.
ALSO,
THE ART OF CONVERTING IT INTO GIN.
AFTER THE
PROCESS OF THE HOLLAND DISTILLERS,
WITHOUT ANY AUGMENTATION OF PRICE.
By ANTHONY BOUCHERIE,
OF LEXINGTON, KY.
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH
BY C. M*******
LEXINGTON, KY.
PRINTED BY WORSLEY & SMITH.
1819
[Transcriber's Note: This edition is from Microfiche. All copies that
I've found are marked "Photographed from an imperfect copy." Printer
errors have been left as is, but noted. We cannot account for the
accuracy in some of the numbers, where the original was exceptionally

difficult to read. Where applicable, any changes are noted with a [TR].
Any other inconsistencies were left as in the original. A Table of
Contents has been included in the HTML version.]

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
District of Kentucky, to wit:
Be it remembered, That on the 10th day of December, in the year of our
Lord, 1818, and the forty-third year of the Independence of the United
States of America, came ANTHONY BOUCHERIE, of the said district,
and deposited in this office, a copy of the title of a book, the right
whereof he claims as author and proprietor, in the words and figures
following, viz:
"The Art of making Whiskey, so as to obtain a better, purer, cheaper
and greater quantity of Spirit from a given quantity of Grain: Also, the
art of converting it into Gin, after the process of the Holland Distillers,
without any augmentation in the price.--By Anthony Boucherie:"
In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled "An
act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps,
charts and books to the authors ann [TR: and] proprietors of such
copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to an act, entitled
"An act supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement
of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the
authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein
mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing
and etching historical and other prints."
JOHN H. HANNA,
Clerk of the District of Kentucky.
[Library stamp: IMPERFECT IN ORIGINAL]

TO THE
HONOURABLE LEGISLATURE
OF THE
STATE OF KENTUCKY.
GENTLEMEN OF THE SENATE, AND OF THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES,
An immense and most fertile country, a republic where every individual
enjoys the most unbounded freedom; such are the advantages which
characterise the United States of America, and render them the asylum
of the oppressed Europeans. I was one of the number, and as early as
January, 1808, congress enacted a law dispensing me with the usual
term of two years residence, for obtaining a patent.
It is the duty of every citizen to contribute to the progress of useful
knowledge, for the benefit and prosperity of his native or adopted
country. It is under that point of view that I now publish The Art of
Making Whiskey, so as to obtain a greater quantity of Spirit from a
given quantity of Grain; the spirit thus obtained being purer and
cheaper. Also, the Art of converting it into Gin, according to the
process of the Holland Distillers, without making it dearer.
[TR: This next paragraph is incomplete] Give me leave, gentlemen, to
publish this little w--[TR: work?] under the patronage of the
enlightened Legisl--[TR: Legislature?] of the state which I have chosen
for my--[TR: residence?] is undoubtedly of a general utility fo-- but
more particularly an agricultural state, such as this, where every thing
that contributes to the success of agriculture, adds to the welfare of the
commonwealth. It is therefore to promote that desirable end, that I
hereby renounce all the privileges granted me eight years ago, for the
distiller's apparatus, of which I give here a description. I invite all
distillers to use it the more confidently, as a long experience has
proved to me its utility. In describing