CHEMICAL EXAMINATION
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THE CONSTITUENTS OF THE DISTILLED SPIRITS AND FERMENTED
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QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION.
ALBEET B^EESCOTT, M. D.,
PROFESSOR OF CRGAXIC AXD APPLIED CHEMISTRY IX THE VXIVKKSITY
OP MICHIGAX
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PEEFACE.
THE numerous inquiries from chemists for some guide
or for references to use in proving alcoholic liquors, and
the steadily increasing demand, in the author's own ex-
perience, for a manual to diminish the task of personally
directing students in this branch of commercial analysis,
hcve led to the preparation of this little work as a help
to the analyst. It has been shaped by the design, firstly
and as a necessary basis for analysis, to place in outline
the chemistry of alcoholic liquors, including their current
impurities and adulterations, in such terms as to be
understood by persons having only an ordinary acquaint-
ance with chemical science. Secondly, to furnish direc-
tions, so far as possible, for an efficient chemical exam-
ination, not more elaborate than required for commercial,
hygienic, and legal purposes, and containing all details
except such as are found in the first books of chemical
analysis.
With no desire to fix the comparative importance of
the prevalent impurities in alcoholic liquors, the writer,
in common with very many persons, holds it to be of
absolute importance to society that all articles used as
4: PREFACE.
foods, medicines, or beverages, be made subject to strict
scientific examination by authority of the law, and that
concealed impurities and additions be systematically ex-
posed and suppressed. Legal provisions to this end,
now being rigidly enforced in all other countries with
which this consents to be classed, are nowhere more ne-
cessary than in the enterprising, inventive, instable, and
eager commerce of America, and here at last and at a
time not distant, they must be initiated. For that time
let analysts be prepared.
The author acknowledges his great indebtedness, not
only in this volume, but as an analyst and teacher, to the
authorities and collators to whom he has given refer-
ences, and to others whose contributions have been so
long published and so well established as to render per-
sonal reference unnecessarv.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN,
ANN ARBOR, December 17, 1871.
CO^TE^TS.
PRODUCTS OF THE ALCOHOLIC FERMENTATION AND
ITS ACCOMPANYING CHANGES.
PARAGRAPH PAGE
1. Alcohol, its composition and properties 9
2. Generic use of the term alcohol for classes of distinct sub-
stances 9
3. The invariable properties of alcohol and the variability of
its mixt ures 10
4. The alcoholic fermentation proper : the yeast plant 10
o. Formation of succinic acid and glycerine and other alcohols 11
6. Saccharine Fermentation of starch, woody-fibre, cane
sugar 11
7. Lactic Fermentation : Butyric Fermentation : Formation of
other Fatty Acids 13
8. Acetic acid formation, conditions of. Aldehyde. The Fatty
Acids 12
9. Compound Ethers formed : ethyl acetate, butyrate, " pelar-
gonate," etc 13
10. Mucous Fermentation, its organized ferment 14
11. Table of Ethylic series of Alcohols and Acetic series of Acids 15
CONSTITUENTS OF THE ALCOHOLIC SPIRITS AND
LIQUORS OF COMMERCE.
12. Commercial grades of " Alcohol " , 16
lo. " Proof Spirit" of U. S, Custom, and of Great Britain 16
14. Chief constituents of the Distilled Liquors of commerce. . . 17
13. Fusel-oils, of what they consist and how they differ 17
16. Whiskey, its constituents and adulterations 18
IT Gin, constituents and additions 19
O CONTENTS.
PARAGRAPH PAGB
1 8. Rum, constituents and additions 20
19. Brandy, veritable, artificial, and fictitious 21
20. The Ethers of Brandy, natural and artificial 22
21. Examples of " brandy essence " and recipes for brandy 23
22. Liqueurs or cordials : Absinthe 23
23. Alcoholic drinks not distilled 24
24. Must, constituents. Wine, constituents 24
25. Additions to Must and to Wine 26
26. Diseased or " sour " wines 27
27. Discrimination of varieties and value of wines, by the expert 28
28. Should any artificial product be termed wine ? 28
29. Variety in the fictitious wines of commerce 29
30. Fusel-oil in fictitious wines 29
31. Addition of sulphuric acid or sulphates to wines 29
32. The acidity of made-up wines. Fruit wines 29
33. Astringents in made-up wines 30
34. Sugar in made-up wines 30
35. Coloring of made-up wines 30
36. Flavoring of made-up wines 31
37. Odor of made-up wines 31
38. Lead and other heavy metals in wines 31
39. Beer, how prepared. Malt 31
40. Varieties of Malt: temperatures at which roasted 32
41. Temperatures of beer fermentation superficial and sedi-
mentary 32
42. Table of average composition of malt and the chief varieties
of Beer 84
43. Proportion of Hops in beer. Composition of hops 33
44. Cane Sugar added to malt- wort 35
45. Common Salt added to malt- wort. Alkaline carbonates 35
46. Fraudulent additions to beer. Bitters and Aromatics 35
47. Is the Cocculus Indicus used in beer ? 36
48. Is Strychnia or mix vomica used in beer ? 36
49. Is Picric acid used in beer? 38
THE CHEMICAL EXAMINATION OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.
50. Identification of Ethylic Alcohol 39
51. Separation of alcohol for determination 41
52. To find the Specific Gravity of alcohol 43
CONTENTS. 7
PARAGRAPH 1'AUE
5:3. Table of Percentage of alcohol aud of water, by weight and
by volume 45
54. Table of Percentage by weight of alcohol at 60 F. and at
77 F 46
55. Rule for correction for differences of temperature 47
56. Reduction of Weight percentage to Volume p. c. and vice
versa 47
57. Conditions of the Examination for Fusel-oil 47
58. Properties of Amylic Alcohol 48
59. Separation or concentration of fusel-oil 48
60. Detection of fusel-oil by ready methods , . . . 49
61. Determination of fusel-oil by tests 49
63. Analysis for Methylic alcohol 51
63. List of Acids to be considered in analysis of liquors 53
64. Relations and means of separating Acetic acid 54
65. Volumetric determination of Acetic acid 54
66. Distillation for obtaining acetic acid 55
67. Distillation after all the alcohol is removed 55
68. Determination, without distillation, as soluble baric salt. ... 55
69. Interference of other soluble baric salts .">5
70. Extraction and characteristics of Acetic ether 55
71. Aldehyde: relations and means of identification 56
72. Formic acid: means of separation and identification 57
73. Butyric acid : properties, separation, identification 58
74. Separation and characteristics of Butyric ether 59
75. Tartaric ether. The less volatile Fatty Acids 59
76. Volatile oils : extraction and recognition 59
77. Creosote : extraction and reactions 61
78. Examination for Nitrite of Ethyl 62
79. Separation of Ether 62
80. Analysis for " Oil of Wine and " Oil of Grapes " '. 62
81. Determination of the Total Acid in Wines 63
82. Determination of free Tartaric Acid. Of acid Tartrate 64
83. Qualitative determination of tartaric acid in Wine and Beer. 64
84. Detection of Oxalic Acid in Wines 65
85. Characteristics of Lactic Acid. Succinic Acid 65
86. Tannic Acid : relations, varieties, and reactions 66
87. Extraction and Quantitative Determination 67
88. Determination of Carbonic Acid 68
CONTENTS.
PARAGRAPH PAGE
80. Detection and determination of free Sulphuric Acid 68
90. Total non-volatile constituents or extract 69
91. Significance of a Residue from Distilled Spirits 70
92. Consistence of the substances in Residue from Wine and
Beer 70
93. Determination of the Sugar of the residue 70
94. Sugar in Distilled Spirits. Qualitative test. Cane Sugar. . 72
95. Estimation of Sugar from alcohol of its fermentation 73
96. Significance of Cane Sugar in Wine or Beer 73
97. Extraction of Glycerine 73
98. Caramel : relations and characteristics 73
99. Examination for caramel in Spirits, etc 74
100. Review of the Color substances, natural and adventitious. 75
101. Examination for foreign colors in Wine 75
101i. Examination for Aromatics 79
102. Examination for Alkaloids 79
103. Examination for Foreign Bitters in Beer 80
104. Examination for Picrotoxin in Beer 82
105. Examination of beer for Hop bitter 85
106. Examination for Aloes in Beer 85
107. Examination for strychnia in beer 86
108. Directions for obtaining the Ash 86
109. Significance of deviations in the ash 86
110. Detection of Fruit Wines from amount of calcium 87
111. Indications of Alum from Ash analysis 87
112. Indication of Green Vitriol from Ash analysis 88
113. Precautions as to basing conclusions on aint. sulph. acid. . . 88
114. Examination for Lead, Arsenic, Zinc, etc 88
TABLE OF REFERENCES: AN OUTLINE OF THE ORDER
OF EXAMINATIONS.
Alcohol 95
Whiskey 95
Gin 95
Rum 96
Liqueurs 96
Wines 97
Beer (Ale and Porter) D7
INDEX. . Hi)
CHEMICAL EXAMINATION OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.
PRODUCTS OF THE ALCOHOLIC FERMENTATION AND
ITS ACCOMPANYING CHANGES.
1. Alcohol is a limpid and colorless liquid, having a
specific gravity of 0.7938 at tho temperature of 60
Fahrenheit, and boiling at 173 F. when the barometer
is at 29. 9 inches. It is a stable and strictly definite chem-
ical compound, represented by the formula CallcO (or, in
the old notation, G^HoOo) that is, it is composed of f J
carbon, hydrogen, and J-| oxygen. It enters into chem-
ical union with but few substances, none of its combina-
tions being in use, but it forms permanent mixtures or
solutions with a large number of substances, and it is
chiefly in these mixtures that alcohol is found in commerce.
Thus, alcohol mixes in all proportions with water, ether,
and the numerous salts of ethyl, most of the volatile oils,
glycerine, and with acetic, sulphuric and nitric acids. It
dissolves large proportions of the sugars, but does not
dissolve the albumens, gelatines, or gums. In mixture
with much water, however, it dissolves the gums, and
dextrine, to a considerable extent. It also dissolves
very large numbers of salts, alkaloids, colors, and other
compounds.
2. The term alcohol, used as a proper name, is applied
10- PRODUCTS OF THE ALCOHOLIC FERMENTATION'
both to the absolute substance, C 2 ir G O, farther specified
by chemists as ethylic alcohol, and to its mixtures with
smaller proportions of water and slight proportions of
other substances. In chemistry, the word alcohol is used
as a common or generic name to designate several series
of substances. A list of one of these series is given in
paragraph 11. But these numerous alcohols, though hav-
ing a definite chemical relation to each other, are all
strictly independent and invariable substances. It is not
correct to speak of methylic alcohol, or amylic alcohol, as
varieties or variations of alcohol any more than it would
be to mention calomel as a variety of corrosive sublimate
or saltpetre as a variety of lunar caustic. A distinct sub-
stance cannot vary in qualities.
3. "With whatever other substances alcohol may be
mixed, it is itself unalterable in every quality, being
neither finer nor coarser, weaker nor stronger than ethylic
alcohol must always be. The mixtures of alcohol with
other substances may present infinite variations in qual-
ities, according to the character and the proportions of
these substances.
4. Alcohol in all its forms and mixtures known in
commerce is produced only by the fermentation of sugar.
The formation of alcohol from the elements, through a
succession of chemical changes, can be brought about in
a number of ways, but these methods are far too difficult
and expensive to be employed for commercial purposes.
The alcoholic fermentation of sugar is chiefly a transfor-
mation of sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid gas, thus :
C 6 H 19 6 = 2C 2 TI 6 + 2C0 2
Sugar, 180 parts. Alcohol, 92 parts. Carb. ac. jrns,
88 parts.
This transformation takes place only in presence of living
AM> ITS ACCOMPANYING CHANGES. 11
yeast, a plant growing in the shape of slightly attached
egg-shaped cells (Torula cerevisiie) not over 4 inch (0.1
millimetre) in diameter. The substance of the plant is
nitrogenous, hence some admixture of nitrogenous mate-
rial with the sugar is indispensable to the fermentation.
The change occurs only in water solution not over one-
fourth sugar or one-fifth alcohol, and at temperatures be-
tween 33 and 122 F., but access of the air is not essen-
tial.
5- Along with the alcoholic fermentation, small but
variable portions of the sugar are resolved into other pro-
ducts beside ethylic alcohol. A portion (according to
PASTEUK as much as 4 or 5 per cent, of the sugar) is con-
verted into succinic acid and glycerine, according to the
following equation :
49C6lI 12 O 6 + 3011*0 == 12C4U 6 04 + T2C 3 TI S O 3 + 30CO 2
Sugar. Water. Succiuic acid. Glyceriue. Carb. ac.
In most cases a portion which under some conditions is
not a very small part of the sugar produces amylic alco-
hol (C 5 Hi2O), and traces of butylic alcohol (OH 10 O), pro-
pylic alcohol (CallsO), and other members of the alcohol
series given under paragraph 11, are often formed the
result being varied by conditions. (Farther, See 7.)
6, The sugar for the alcoholic fermentation is glucose,
or grape sugar, also named starch sugar, and it may be
derived from a multitude of sources. The juice of nearly
all fruits contains sugar ; starch, the largest constituent
of all the cereal grains and of potatoes, is easily trans-
formed into sugar ; and woody-fibre is changed to sugar
by action of sulphuric acid. The change of starch into
sugar is effected by hot dilute mineral acids, and also by
12 PRODUCTS OF THE ALCOHOLIC FERMENTATION
the saccharine fermentation which is induced in the ;er-
O
mination of seeds, in the digestion of starch-food, and by
the conditions of alcoholic fermentation. In each case,
the starch first becomes dextrine, which changes to sugar.
Cane sugar and milk sugar change to glucose by action
of the alcoholic ferment.
0,11,00, + n s o = cw.,0,,
Starch. Water. Glucose.
CiaHsaOn + II 8 O = 2C 6 H 12 O 6
Sucroge. Water. Glucose.
C 6 H 10 5 + H 8 = C 6 II 1 ,0 6
Woody-librc. Water. Glucose.
7. Under the action of certain ferments, sugars are con-
verted into lactic acid, and by persistence of the same
conditions lactic acid is converted into butyric acid. The
following equations represent these the lactic and butyric
fermentations :
C 6 H 12 6 - 2C 3 TT 6 3
Sugar. Lactic acid.
SCsIIoOs = C 4 II 8 O 2 + 2CO* + 411
Lactic acid. Butyric acid. Carb. ac. gas. Hydrogen.
The natural ferment which induces these changes is
a fungus termed Penicillium glaucum, composed of cells
not over T u~J-o inch (0.0025 millimetre) diameter, with
branching cells grouped together. Accompanying the al-
coholic fermentation from starch in grain and in potatoes,
and of sugar in grape juice and beet juice, there frequently
occurs a production of traces of other volatile fatty acids
belonging to the same series with butyric acid, as caproic
acid (CeHiaO^ oenanthic acid ((Vn'itf^, cap ry lie acid
(C 8 II 1G 2 ).
8. When alcohol diluted with water is exposed to the
air at warm temperatures, or is subjected to other oxidiz-
AND IT.- ACCOMPANYING CIIAX^r-. 1 '
ing agents, it suffers two degrees of oxidation, resulting in
the formation of acetic acid (which also belongs to the same
series with butyric acid). These changes, which are not
true fermentations but correspond to combustion and de-
cay, are defined as follows :
CoTIfiO + O = C 2 H 4 O + IIoO
Alcohol. Oxygen. Aldehyd. Water.
C 2 H 4 O + O =- C 2 II 4 Oo
Aldehyd. Oxygeu. Acetic acid.
In ordinary acetification the alcoholic liquid containing
albuminoid matters the oxidation of the alcohol is accom-
panied and greatly accelerated by the presence and growth
of an organized ferment, the "vinegar plant," or Myco-
derma aceti, a fungus composed of spores having a mean
length of -j-J-g- inch and thickness of T^Q- inch (0.031 by
0.015 millimetre). The other members of the alcohol
series given in paragraph 11 are liable to oxidation
like that of ethylic alcohol, each producing an aldehyd
and each aldehyd producing an acid, these acids constitu-
ting a homologous series of acids : those given with the
acids in 11. Hence, by action of the air during the alco-
holic fermentation, certain minute portions of the*various
alcohols named in paragraph 5 may be transformed into
the volatile fatty acids mentioned in 7.
9. By the action of acids upon alcohols, ethers (and
water) are produced, as follows :
HC 2 H 3 O 2 = C 2 H 5 CgHsOs + H 2 O
Ethylic alcohol. Acetic acid. Acetic ether. Water.
rOo = C 2 II 5 C 4 HrO 2 + H 2 O
Ethylic alcohol. Butyric acid. Butyric ether. Water.
In this manner, during the ageing of wines and liquors, are
formed small quantities of acetic ether, butyric ether
PRODUCTS OF THE ALCOHOLIC FERMENTATION
(pine-apple essence), cenanthyc ether (Hungarian wine
oil), pelargonic ether, acetate of amyl (pear oil), valerianate
of amyl (apple oil), and other fragrant ethers.
10, Under certain conditions sugar undergoes the vis-
cous or mucous fermentation, with formation of gum and
mannite :
Sugar. Water. Gum. Mannite. Carb. acid.
This change sometimes occurs in fermented liquors, caus-
ing ropiness. It takes place in presence of an organized
ferment, composed of spherules y^-g-Q to-j T -5-o-oinch(0.0014:
to 0.0012 millimetre) in diameter, the spherules mostly
cohering in chains and the chains interlaced together.
AND ITS ACCOMPANYING CHANGES.
15
11. The following table comprises the compounds
known at present as members of The Ethylic Series of
Alcohols and the Acetic Series of Fatty Acids.
ALCOHOLS.
CnHan + aO
BOIL.
ACIDS.
CliHsnOa
BOIL.
1
9
Methylic . .
Ktliylic
CHiO
CaHeO
150 F.
173 "
Formic ....
Acetic ....
C H a O a
C 2 H 4 O 2
221 F.
243 "
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Propylic . .
Butylic . . .
Amy lie. . . .
Caproic . . .
Oenantliic .
Caprylic . .
C 3 H 6
C 4 HioO
C 6 H, a O
C 6 H 14
C 7 H 16
CsH.eO
205 "
233 "
270 "
209 "
327 "
356 "
Propylic. . .
Butyric . . .
Valerianic .
Caproic. . . .
Oenantliic .
Caprylic . . .
Palargonic .
CsIIeOa
C4H B Oa
CaHloOa
C.H^Oa
C-H 14 2
C,H 16 2
CgHlfiOa
284 "
314 "
347 "
392 "
?
457 "
500 "
10
Rutic
CioIIaaO
Rutic
H
Euodic ....
CnH 2a O2
1
Laurie
C 12 H 26 O
Laurie ....
CnHaiOa
"\,
Cocinic. . . .
CisHatOa
14
Myristic. . .
Ci 4 H 28 02
15
Benic
16
Cetylic. . . .
C 1(5 H34O
Palmitic. . .
17
Margaric . .
CiTHsiOa
18
Stearic
CieHaeOa
10
Balenic. . . .
CigHseOa
.
Butic
1
Bardie
CaiH4 2 O 2
37
;?n
Cerylic. . . .
Melissic .
C 27 H 56
C-oIIeaO
Cerotic ....
.Melissic
Ca7H B 4O a
C 30 H fi oO 2
16 CONSTITUENTS OF THE ALCOHOLIC SPIKITd
CONSTITUENTS OP THE ALCOHOLIC SPIRITS AND
LIQUORS OF COMMERCE.
12. The "alcohol" of commerce is of different grades,
being ethylic alcohol with admixture of water in propor-
tions ranging from T to 16 per cent, by weight as ordinary
limits, and with "fusel oil" (15) in proportions which vary
from an indistinguishable trace to an amount largely al-
tering the odor of the mixture. Traces of aldehyde and
of acetic acid are often present. The " Alcohol " of the U.
S. Pharmacopoeia is 85 percent., by weight, of pure alco-
hol, a grade not much used. The " Stronger Alcohol, or
Alcohol Fortius " of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia the or-
dinary best druggist's alcohol is 92 per cent, by weight
of pure alcohol.* The " absolute alcohol " of commerce
is not such in fact, but contains 4 or 5 percent, by weight
of water, with scarcely any fusel oil. "Anhydrous alco-
hol " is the term applied to an article which is chemically
pure, or nearly so. See Table at paragraph 53. f
13. " Proof Spirit," as designated by the U. S. Govern-
ment, is 50 per cent, by volume at 60, or 43 per cent., by
weight, of pure alcohol. Proof Spirit in Great Britain is
* The alcohol most extensively sold is from 89 to 92 per cent, by
weight, being called " 95 percent, alcohol " with reference-to measure
by volume.
f The addition of elher as an adulteration in commercial alcohol
to lower specific gravity and compensate for water has been re-
ported (').
0) SIIUTTLEM'OIITII: Canadian Phann. Jour., July, ISi'-J, j>. i .' >.
ASD LI^UURS OF COMMERCE. 17
56 per" cent, by volume, or 49 per cent, by weight, of al-
cohol.
14. The Distilled Liquors in commerce contain, as legk
timate constituents:
Alcohol, from the proportion in British proof spirit,
defined above, down to about 30 per cent, by weight. The
U. S. Pharmacopoeia requires whiskey and brandy to bavo
from 48 to 56 per cent, by volume (41 to 49 per cent, by
weight) of alcohol.
" Fusel Oil." In the most carefully distilled liquors, not
present in quantities sufficient to be easily identified, but
in the larger number of liquors it can be found, in pro-
portions varying from an ineffective trace to an amount
notably affecting the sensible properties of the liquor.
Ethers, acetic acid, volatile oils, as specified under the
head of each liquor in very small quantities, slightly
affecting the odor and flavor.
Color-substances and astringents from the wood of casks
minute quantities.
Water being the remainder of the liquor.
Farther as additions and not legitimate we may find
the various articles mentioned in the description of liquors
below, and others that the caprice or ingenuity of the
manipulator may suggest.
15. Fusel oils consist of those products of the alcoholic
fermentation which distil at a temperature higher than
the boiling point of ethylic alcohol. Whatever the field
of the fermentation, the chief of the fusel-oil products is
amylie alcohol : while butylic and propylic alcohols and
the volatile fatty acids may severally be present in varia-
ble but subordinate quantities. See 5, 7, and 11. Pota-
18 CONSTITUENTS OF ALCOHOLIC SPIRITS.
to-fusel-oil, corn-fusel-oil, the fusel-oil from the marc of
grapes, and that from beet-root possess characteristic
cliiferences. Potato-fusel-oil is almost wholly amylic al-
cohol ; grape-fusel-oil contains more butylic alcohol and
is especially rich in the volatile fatty acids. In fermen-
tation, raw grain is productive of more fusel-oil than
malted grain, and potatoes more than grain ; the expressed
juice of fresh grapes forms but little and the marc of
grapes a good deal ; but the conditions are as influential
as the materials. As separated and sold, fusel-oils always
contain ethylic alcohol.*
16, The principal distilled liquors are whiskey, gin, rum,
and brandy.
Whiskey is the diluted alcohol distilled from fermented
grain (malted or not) or potatoes. That from malted
grain is at highest price and contains least fusel-oil (with
* RABUTEAU deduced from experiments with frogs (L'Union,
1870, 90; Schmidt's Jahrbuecher Gesam. Med., 1871, B. 149, p.
264) that Amylic Alcohol produces poisonous effects closely resem-
bling those of Ethylic Alcohol, but of fifteen times greater intensity.
The frogs were floated in a 0.002 solution of the alcohol (1 part to 500
parts of water) and then in stronger solutions, and the effects of de-
pressed action of the heart, congestion, anaesthesia, and death were
timed. Amylic alcohol produced the same effects in the same times
as did ethylic alcohol of 15 times greater concentration, or butylic
alcohol of 3 times greater concentration. From which it was inferred
that the poisonous action of butylic alcohol is 5 times more intense
than that of ethylic alcohol in same quantity. Rabuteau also ex per
imented with himself by taking 0.25 to 0.50 grammes, (4 to 8 grains) of
amylic alcohol in a glass of wine, and the results confirmed the con-
clusions given above.
On the other hand, observers of cases of delirium tremens and
acute alcoholism, have not found it more likely to result from use of
cheap grades of spirits with much fusel-oil than from purer and
stronger grades. (Alcoholism in Russia, HERMANN.)
WIIISKKY (JIN'. 19
equal care in distillation). In old whiskey, traces of the
acetates and valerianates of ethyl and amyl are formed (9)
and color and a very little tannic acid are derived from
the cask.
Originally, whiskey was distilled by direct application
of a strong heat, whereby the solid residues of the wort
undergo some destructive distillation and a smoky odor
and flavor are imparted to the liquor (some fusel-oil be-
ing also distilled over). At present, the smoky odor is
obtained, if at all, by the addition of a drop or two of
creosote to the gallon of malt spirits. It is sometimes di-
rected to add one or two drops each of creosote and pnri
fied fusel-oil to the gallon ! But the most of the spirit
termed whiskey is not characterized by a smoky odor. For
color, burned sugar (caramel), logwood, catechu, tea infu-
sion, etc., are sometimes added. There is no evidence
that strychnia has ever been used in the making up of
whiskey, or other distilled liquor, and no probability that
it will be so used. Its intentional addition to the malt-
wort could only arise from gross ignorance, and would not
at all affect the distillate ; and its addition to the distilled
liquor would be an expensive measure, promising to lessen
rather than increase the market price of the beverage. As
to use of strychnia in beer, see 48.
Methylic alcohol, derived from distillation of wood, and
known as wood spirit, wood naphtha or pyroxylic spirit
with some creosote left from the crude wood spirit is
perhaps sometimes added to whiskey. The British Gov-
ernment permits spirit one-ninth methylic alcohol to go
free of tax as being secure against use as a beverage.
17. Gin is grain spirit flavored with oil of juniper or oil
of turpentine, or both. Formerly, in the distillation, ju-
20 rONSTJ'lTKXTS OF ALCOHOLIC SPIRIT.-.
niper berries (or Strasbnrg turpentine) were placed in the
retort. At present, oil of juniper is added in proportion
of about one fluid-ounce of the oil to 33 gallons of spirit,
or oil of turpentine in proportion of about one fluid-ounce
to 10 gallons of spirit. The manufacturers of gin make
this addition of oil of juniper or of turpentine to grain
spirit with water, common salt, and other slight addi-
tions peculiar to each manufacturer and re-distil an
amount somewhat exceeding that of the grain spirit taken.
Among the slight additions characterizing the several
brands of manufacture are oils of lemon, bitter almonds,
caraway, cassia, sweet fennel, and cardamoms; creosote,
garlic, and horseradish root. Potassa is said to be some-
times added, to give "piquancy" prized by the lower or-
ders of gin drinkers in England, but it is rarely or never
actually found by analysts. Veritable gin, if faithfully
redistilled from water and common salt the water being
about one-half the quantity of the grain spirit taken
contains far less fusel-oil than whiskey, indeed should not
contain enough to be readily found at all. Cayenne pep-
per and sulphate of zinc arc mentioned as additions by
dealers, and sugar is frequently added in considerable
quantity. Color is not added to gin, and care is taken
that it shall not receive much color from casks. Also, n
little acetic acid is sometimes added to diminish color.
Holland gin, distilled from juniper, was introduced as
Schiedam Schnapps, a name since applied to various gin-
mixtures.
18, Rum was originally distilled from fermented juice
of sugar cane (which is 12 to 10 per cent, sugar), and is
now made to some extent from the residues and skim-
mings of sugar manufacture, but is mostly made of grain.
Jil'if BRAXDY. -
spirit with flavoring additions. Butyric ether (pineapple
oil) is the characteristic flavor added to nun. Butyric
ucitl also is often added, and with the dilute alcohol it
forms butyric ether. The flavor is sometimes obtained
by adding sliced pineapples to the spirit. The t% rum
essence," prepared to add to grain spirit and make rum,
is made up of various substances, including many which
are also used in "brandy essence.*'
19. Brandy, in the strict meaning of the term, is the di-
lute alcohol distilled from fermented grape juice, and,
hence, contains the volatile constituents of wine. Verita-
ble brandy, unless from wine taken in part at least from
fermented marc of grapes, cannot contain much fusel-oil ;
and (like other distilled liquors) if- distilled with care it
must be free from notable proportions of fusel-oil. On
the contrary, if improperly distilled, from fermented marc,
it may contain much fusel-oil. As wine fusel-oil is com-
paratively rich in acids (7), especially in cenanthic and
pelarsronic acids, the formation of the ethers of these
acids (9) is correspondingly abundant. Hence age pro-
duces more effect in brandy than in other distilled liquors.
Artificial brandy is a grain spirit with additions of sub-
stances which are characteristic constituents of a grape
spirit. It may be made more or less nearly identical in
composition with, veritable brandy. Fictitious brandy ia
a grain spirit with additions which make it resemble a
grape spirit in flavor and odor rather than in composition.
A substitution for brandy is a grain spirit (in most cases),
not modified to approximate grape spirit, but merely pre-
sented as such. The term brandy, as used in commerce,
without qualification, must be held by common consent
to include artificial brandy.
22 CONSTITUENTS OF ALCOHOLIC SPIRITS.
20. Tlte ethers characteristic of old grape spirit are
formed by the volatile acids of the acetic series, especially
cenanthic acid and those contiguous to it in the series, and
acetic acid, these acids being in combination with ethyl
chiefly and in smaller proportion with amvl. A little free
acetic acid is always, and aldehyde is usually present.
The ethers added, in artificial brandy, are chiefly acetic
ether and the " cenanthic ether," or " pelargonic ether " of
commerce, also termed ''Hungarian oil of wine." This
is a somewhat variable mixture of several ethers, being
ethyl compounds of the fatty acids between the 5th and
10th of the acetic series, artificially prepared from various
materials. (11). In fictitious brandy, the spirit of nitrous
ether (sweet spirits of nitre) is much used for the cheaper
grades, often with aromatics and other substances, of which
a great variety are employed. Higher priced brandies
are formed of grain spirit by acquiring age after the addi-
tion of " oil of wine," " oil of grapes," or the " eau-de-vie
cle marc." The " oil of wine " used for this purpose is,
approximately, the ethereal oil of the pharmacopoeias, con-
taining ethylene and ethyl sulphate: the " oil of grapes '
is the fusel-oil last distilled from fermented marc of grapes
or from lees of sour wine, then etherized with sulphuric
acid, and contains amyl sulphate. ''Eau-de-vie de marc"
is the unchanged fusel-oil and spirit distilled by a quick
fire from lees of sour wine or from, fermented marc of
grapes. Tannic acid in some form is generally added in
artificial and fictitious brandies, and often in proportion
larger than can be derived from the cask by very old
brandy. Veritable brandy is of course colorless when
new, but it has become customary to give artificial and
fictitious brandies a color deeper than the pale yellowish
EKANDY A1JSINTHE. 23
tint derived by long standing in the cask. Caramel is the
color most often employed, but other colors are used, as
mentioned under the head of Whiskey (16).
21. The following are some examples of brandy mak-
ing. " Brandy essence," 15 parts of acetic ether, 12 parts
of spirit of nitrous ether, 1 part of rectified wood spirit (16).
" Brandy essence," 5 parts of oil of grapes, 4 parts of
acetic ether, 1 part of tincture of all allspice, 3 parts of
tincture of pills, 100 parts of "alcohol." Take 1 part of
either of these "brandy essences" to 1,000 parts of "al-
cohol," with 600 parts of water. Or, 2,500 to 3,000
parts of SO to 90 per cent, alcohol, 1.700 to 2,000 parts of
water, 10 parts of spirit of nitrous ether, 5 parts of tinc-
ture of allspice, 1 part of acetic ether, 2 parts of tannic
acid. (The spirit of nitrous ether contains 5 per cent, or
less of ethyl nitrite.) A London "brandy improver:"
acetic ether, oil of capsicum, sugar, and caramel. The
oils or tinctures of cassia and cloves, and oil of bitter al-
mond are used.
22. Under the name of liqueurs, or cordials, are in-
cluded a great number of special and proprietary drinks
consisting of grain spirit usually somewhat more dilute
than ordinary distilled liquors, with a great variety of
aromatics, frequently heavily sweetened and sometimes
brightly colored violet, green, blue, or of other tint.
Anilin colors (possibly containing arsenic), and other
colors of doubtful safety are liable to be used.
Absinthe is a liqueur with 40 to 60 per cent, by vol-
ume of alcohol and several per cent, of volatile oils those
of wormwood (artimisia absinthium), cinnamon, cloves, an-
ice, and angelica being chiefly used. It is slightly colored
green with fresh leaves of spinach and parsley. It has
24 CONSTITUENTS OF FKKMENTEI) LIQUORS.
been colored with acetate of copper, also with a mixture
of indigo and gamboge.
23. Of the alcoholic drinks not distilled, those most in
use are fermented from grape juice and from grain : wines
and beers.
24, The juice of grapes, or must, contains from 10 to
30 per cent, of sugar; from 0.5 to 1.5 per cent, of free
acid (calculated as tartaric acid), chiefly tartaric acid and
acid tartrate of potassium, witli variable or slight propor-
tions of racemic, malic, and citric acids ; tannic acid ; 0.2
to 0.8 per cent, of albumen; small quantities of gum,
pcctine, wax, and fat ; ''extractive matter;" and 0.25 to
0.40 per cent, of mineral substances potassium, sodium,
calcium, magnesium, aluminum, iron, manganese, phos-
phates, chlorides, sulphates, and silica the potassium
salts and phosphates predominating. During and after
fermentation, there is a separation of " argol " or crude
u cream of tartar " chiefly the acid tartrate of potassium,
with some tartrate of calcium, and traces of other salts.
Wine, the fermented juice of the grape without addi-
tions, contains :
(a) Alcohol, 7 to 20 per cent, by weight :
(b) Non-volatile Substances, 3 to 10 per cent., including
Grape Sugar, 0.1 to 3.0 per cent., (in a few va-
rieties of wine, 10, 13, 14 per cent.);
Free Fixed Acid equal to 0.3 to 0.6 of tartaric ;
Tannic Acid, usually 0.08 to 0.20 per cent. ;
Glycerine, 0.1 to 0.5 (maximum 2.U) per cent. ;
Albumen (usually less than in must as given
above, the nitrogen ranging from 0.02 io
0.06 per cent.) ;
25
Gum, Pectine, Fat, AVax, Color, (all in the.inuot);
Ash, 0.17 to 0.27 per cent, (phosphoric anhy-
dride 0.04 to O.OG and potassium oxide 0.00
to 0.13 per cent.; potassic phosphate fully
two thirds the aslij ;
Tartrate of Ethyl, decomposed upon evaporation ;
(c) Volatile Substances beside alcohol and water,
Ethers, mentioned in 9 ;
Fusel-oil (See 15) ;
Acetic Acid (0.06 to 0.12 per cent.).
It will be seen that the (b) contents of wine comprise all
the substances of must with a great reduction of the
amount of sugar, a diminution in the slight amount of
albumen, an abstraction from the acid and the ash of the
amount of " argol " formed, and with the addition of gly-
cerine and formation, of tartaric ether, while there is in
wine an addition of (a) and (c) contents not in must. The
Free Acid consists of tartaric acid and its isomers and acid
tartrate of potassium, with frequent inclusion of malic or
citric acid, or both, and succinic acid. Tartaric acid may
suffer decomposition, to a slight extent, during fermenta-
tion. A small portion of the tartaric acid becomes neu-
tralized in tartaric ether, not volatile like the other ethers,
but on evaporation decomposed to leave tartaric acid.
Tannicacid is scarcely found at all in white wines.
The color-substance of red wine is chiefly Oenocyanin
or Oenocyn (CioHi 5 ), blue-black when pure, insoluble
in water, alcohol, or ether, but soluble in dilute alcohol
acidulated with tartaric or acetic acid, being turned red
by acids, while iixed alkalies restore its blue color, and
ammonia changes it first green, then brown. Its spec-
trum shows no absorption bands, but a general absorption
2
26 CONSTITUENTS OF FERMENTED LIQUORS.
increasing toward the violet. The yellow tint of " white
wines,'' is derived from oxidation of "extractive" and is
similar to that found in humus.
25. The most frequent additions to must, or fermenting
wine, are the following:
Sugar, to increase the alcoholic strength of wines
which otherwise would be weak. (CIIAPTAL'S method.
But not over about 20 per cent, by weight of alcohol can
be obtained by fermentation).
Sugar and water, to reduce acidity or to increase the
product. PETIOT'S plan is the addition of sugar and water
to the water-washings of expressed grapes.
Alcohol, to " strengthen " or to preserve the wine.
After fermentation it may be added to amount to more
than the 20 per cent, by weight.
Glycerine is named among the additions by wine
makers in Europe, as proposed by Scheele in 1805, from
1 to 3 per cent, being the proportion added.
Calcined Gypsum, to prevent viscous fermentation
(10) or restore ropy wine, to fix color, to remove water.
It is also sometimes sprinkled upon the grapes. Wine
of ordinary alcoholic strength will hold in solution about
0.08 per cent, of gypsum of greater alcoholic strength a
smaller quantity increasing the amount of sulphates in
the ash. Alum is sometimes added to deepen and fix
color, and will remain in solution.
Sulphites and sulphurous acid may be named here
though usually added after fermentation, if at all. Casks
are often treated with the vapor of burning sulphur.
These additions designed to prevent mouldincss and
check acetification by gradual oxidation furnish sulphates
and possibly sometimes free sulphuric acid in the wine.
WIXK*. 27
Tho result last named can occur when the sulphurous acid
or acid sulphite is added in such excess as to form a quan-
tity of sulphuric acid greater than the bases can neutralize.
Marble dust to neutralize and remove excessive aci-
dity of must after fermentation. If not added in undue
quantity, it only increases the amount of argol and pro-
portion of calcium in the same, without leaving calcium
in solution ; but if added in excess, calcium salts remain
dissolved.*
Neutral tartrate of potassium is added to reduce the free
acid of wine, which it does by increasing the deposition
of acid tartrate of potassium. If added in excess, it re-
mains in the wine, increasing the residue of solids and the
ash.
Gelatine, or gum arabic, with tannic acid, are sometimes
added in clarifying must and excess of gum or tannic acid
may remain in solution.f
Vegetable red colors. Juice of elderberries (sambucus
canadensis and nigra) and of bilberries (vaccinium myr-
tillus).
26. Diseased or "sour" wines produced chiefly by the
fermentations described in paragraphs 8, 7, 10 are tur-
bid and often ropy and usually contain an undue quantity
of acetic acid. According to Hager, J if more than 0.2
per cent, of acetic acid is found, the wine may be de-
clared diseased. This amount of acetih'cation does not
occur unless the action of the air is aided by the contact
* Chaptal's Method report of Moscliini and Sestini upon Jour.
Cheiu. Soc.,vol. xi, 1275; from Gazetta chimica italiana, iii, 195.
f 3 oz. of tannin are enough for 1200 litres of wine ; after about
a week add a solution of isinglass. Bayerischer Bierbrauer, 1872.
Parent Ding, pblytech. Jour., 201, 4 (1872) recommends addition
of tannin for conservation of wines.
J Untersuchungen, II, 310.
28 cnxs'iTrrKXTr; ui' FKKMKXTKD i.igr<>i;s.
of the vinegar plant, the cells of which can be found, as
described in 7, much smaller than those of the yeast
plant. Wine which has become bitter contains an alga,
composed of knotty, ramified, crumpled bodies, not over
Trow i nc h (0.002 millimetre) in diameter, and with small
spherical bodies interspersed. Ropy wine contains the
spherules described in 10. The amount of tartaric acid
is somewhat reduced by acetification in wine.
27. The discrimination between certain similar wines,
and the estimation of the commercial value of the finer
wines, is to a considerable extent dependent upon the
trained sense of smell and taste of an expert. But, though
flavor and odor are varied by differences not determined
by the chemist, the effect which the wine has upon the
system varies more with the proportions of its chief con-
stituents, and is most plainly indicated by a chemical
analysis.
28. The artificial production of wines is not, like that
of brandy, a task which chemical skill can hope to accom-
plish. Beside the great complexity of the ethers, the
solid "extractives" are requisite. Then, the peculiarity
in many cases the commercial value of an actual wine
depends upon certain proportions of the constituents
named above, which proportions the chemist cannot fully
determine. The ethers of wine elude quantitative anal-
ysis. Moreover, there are doubtless substances in wine
not identified. It may be perfectly true that a mixture
of pure alcohol, water, glucose, bitartrate, and ethers may
be made in such carefully adjusted proportions that it will
probably be capable of producing whatever effect wine
would produce upon the system ; and, indeed, may be less
objectionable for administration, more agreeable, and
(when offered ad wine) more salable than are many grades
of actual wine, vet such a mixture is not actual wine, and
should not be presented as such.
29. It is not possible to specify all the materials which
enter the fictitious wines of commerce, or which, in all
parts of the world, are added to actual wines. And the
additions to wines assume all proportions from a slight
correction of the must to the taking of a gallon of actual
wine in the make-up of a barrel of a liquid to be
called wine.
30. The alcohol employed in making-Tip wines is
usually ordinary grain spirit, while that added to must
is strong alcohol, and the higher priced wines are some-
times fortified with brandy. In the majority of cases, the
distilled spirit used contains much more fusel-oil than
average wines contain.
31. There is no occasion to add free acid to grape-juice
wines for acidity. But sulphurous acid or sulphuric acid
may have been added as a preservative. In addition to
what is stated on this point in paragraph 25, the state-
ment of Graeger should be considered, viz., that free sul-
phuric acid results from reaction_bgj:ween gypsum and
acid tartrate of potassium in wine, when gypsum is dusted
upon the grapes or when water continuing calcium sul-
phate is used, with sugar, in Petiot's process. * Xow
sulphuric acid, and alum, are very common additions in
fictitious wines, but as we have seen, either may be added
in a grape-juice wine. Nevertheless, more than minute
proportions of either must be accepted, at the least, as an
unwarrantable sophistication.
32. In the making-Tip of wine?, for acidity, bitartrate
* Dingl. polyt. J,, ecvii., 430, and Jour. Chem. Soc., 18?:?, 9:57.
30 coxs'rnTK.vrs UF FKUMEXTKJ.)
of potassium and tartaric acid are most employed, lemon-
juice perhaps sometimes. Wine casks are coated with
argol by rolling them while containing a little hot satu-
rated solution of bitartrate of potassium. Cider is a prom-
inent constituent of many " wines," (especially port and
champagne). The apple-juice has about the same pro-
portion of free acid that must contains, the predominant
acid being malic. In cider calcium predominates ; in grape
wine magnesium is more abundant than calcium (110).
The "wine" made up from the juice of "pie-plant"
(Rheum Rhaponticum and other varieties of Rheum) con-
tains oxalic acid and acid oxalates.
33. Fictitious wines are often made more astringent
than veritable wines: tannin, catechu, rhatany, kino, oak
shavings, and logwood being used the two last named
for purpose of color.
34. Sugar is a usual constituent of made wines ; com-
monly cane-sugar, which, however, by presence of free
acid, gradually changes to grape-sugar. Presence of cane-
sugar may be regarded as evidence of sophistication or
substitution.
35. The color of fictitious wines is obtained by addition
of various articles, including logwood, elder-berries, and
danewort, brazil-wood, bilberries, privet berries, mulber-
ries, holy oak flowers, red poppy, litmus, red saunders,
oak sawdust, caramel, and anilin colors.* (See 100 g. h.
etc.). Alum is much used to deepen color, especially
that of elder-berries.
* E. B. Shuttle worth reports, in the Canadian Pharmaceutical
Journal, 1874, June, p. 381, finding fuchsine in a sample of "port
wine." Also, that he has ascertained that a mixture of magenta and
"azaline" is sold extensively to color made-up wines. See 100 I.
BEER. 31
36. Almonds, oil of bitter almonds (artificial ? *), tinc-
ture of grape-seed, cloves, and various volatile oils and
aromatics are used in minute quantities to make up a
flavor.
37. The odor or bouquet of wines is attempted by
use of pelargonic, acetic, and butyric ethers, sweetbrier,
orange flowers, orris root, etc.
38. It has been for a long time reported that lead ox-
ide, or granulated lead, is sometimes added to wines to
lessen acidity or to check acetiflcation ; also that acetate
of lead has been directly added for that purpose. Tradi-
tions and recipes directing these additions have been and
may now be astray among the ignorant, and may be exe-
cuted ; but probably lead is more likely to occur in wine
from contact with lead-spigots, shot left from cleaning
bottles, or use of lead pipes. STOKER found lead in a wine
containing also free sulphuric acid the plumbic sulphate
being probably held in solution by alkaline tartrates and
sulphates.f Zinc, tin, and copper may occur in wines
accidentally, as just stated of lead, by solution of the me-
tals, and arsenic as a constituent of zinc vessels, or of sul-
phuric acid or anilin.
39. Beer (including Ale and Porter) is the liquid ob-
tained by fermentation of malted grain, without concen-
tration or dilution, and consists of the constituents of malt
soluble in water, ^ith a little hop, as altered by the alco-
holic fermentation and to a slight extent by acetitication
""" Nitrobenzole, now largely substituted for the natural oil of bit-
ter almonds as a perfume and a flavor, is an active poison, a few drops
constituting a poisonous dose.
t Chem. News, xxi, 16, (1870, March).
32 CONSTITUKXTS OF FKJIMKXTKD LlQl'oit>.
and (often) lactic fermentation. Malt is grain first ger-
minated and then roasted: in germination some of tlie
starch is changed to dqx trine, and a little of the dextrine to
sugar, by the saccharine fermentation, the gluten being
in part also modified to diastase, and in roasting, another
portion of starch is changed to dextrine, sugar is changed
to caramel (caramelin, etc.), and assamar and " extractives"
are formed. Concerning the fermentations just mentioned,
see paragraphs 4 to S, inclusive.
40, Pale malt is dried at temperature not above 100
F. and used for the palest ales ; amber-colored malt, at
120 to 125 F. ; brown malt, for porter, at 150 to 170
F. ; black malt, used only for coloring, at 360 to 400 F.
41. The alcoholic fermentation, for ales, porter, and
the most of the beers except " lager-bier," is conducted
at temperatures ranging from 60 to 90 F. ; British pale
ale, not above 72 F. The Bavarian beer (lager-bier or
stored beer) is fermented at temperatures below 50, and
then stored at a temperature near the freezing point of
water. For example, in a brewery at Heidelberg, the wort
was fermented for 8 or 9 days at 41 to 46 F. and thei?
stored for 8 to 12 months at 34 to 36 F.
At low temperatures, the yeast grows by atmospheric
oxidation of the gluten; the alcoholic fermentation is re-
tarded until nearly all the gluten is destroyed, and in con-
sequence of the absence of gluten (and low temperature)
little acetic acid is formed in the beer. The moderate
evolution of carbonic acid gas carries no scum to the sur-
face, the yeast sinks to the bottom as fast as it is formed,
and such yeast, called bottom yeast (Unterhefe), repro-
duces this form of fermentation, called sedinJentary fer-
mentation (nntergahrung). On the other hand, at high
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temperatures, the gluten is oxidized at expense of >omo
decomposition of sugar to sustain the yeast [LiKBia], the
alcoholic fermentation is completed when gluten remains
undecorn posed in the beer, and from presence of gluten
(and high temperature) acetic acid is formed. The tu-
multuous evolution of the gas carries the yeast to the
surface, where it remains, and this yeast top yeast (Ober-
hefe) will again favor this variety of fermentation, called
superficial fermentation (Obergahrung). (See table on
next page.)
The weight of pale to amber (dry) malt averages 92
per cent, of anhydrous barley, or nearly SO per cent, of
barley in irs natural condition (containing 12 or 13 per
cent, of water). The loss is chiefly carbonic anhydride
and dust of eel Inline.
The albuminoid matter of beer includes yeast cells.
The average proportion of nitrogen in yeast is about 10
per cent. (9 to 12 per cent.) the nitrogen in albumen
varying (between much narrower limits) from 15 to 16
per cent.
43. The proportion of hops added varies from 0.5 per
cent, to 2.0 per cent, of the malt, by weight : (German
draught beer, 0.6 to 1.0 per cent.; German stored beer,
1.3 to 2.0 per cent.).
The bitter and oil and extractive matter of hop remain
in solution : the tannic acid is precipitated by the albu-
minous constituents of malt wort and is left behind. The
bitter substance constitutes 4.7 per cent, of the hop
strobils, and 0.9 per cent, of the lupuline or 5.1 per cent,
of the entire hops; the Volatile Oil constitutes 0.12 per
cent, of the strobils, or 0.11 per cent, of the entire hops ;
the strobils forming 0.9 and the lupuline 0.1 of the hop.
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44. Cane sugar is sometimes added to malt wort, and
in Great Britain this addition is permitted by law. By
this means the proportion of alcohol is increased without
increase in the solids.
45. Common salt is frequently added in the fermenta-
tion of malt wort, so that the ash of beer is rich in sodium
and chlorine, only traces of which are present in the ash
of malt.
Alkaline carbonates are sometimes added to correct
"sour" beers. It is held that over 0.075 per cent, of
alkaline carbonate (0.750 gramme in 1 litre) indicates
sophistication in German beer,* but it is evident that the
richest ales may normally contain as much as 0.2 per cent.
(2.000 gramme in 1 litre).
46. The following may be farther named as the most fre-
quent unauthorized (fraudulent) additions to beer. As bit-
ters quassia, gentian, wormwood (artimisia absinthium),
aloes, buckbean (menyanthes trifoliata), "herb bennet" or
" blessed thistle" (centaurea benedictus). As aromatics,
anise, fennel, cinnamon, coriander, caraway, cardamom,
ginger, capsicum. Sulphate of iron (ferrous), alum, and
sulphuric acid have been used, the former two to impart
frothiness, the latter to simulate age and alcoholic strength.
Caramel, generally in the crude form of empyreumatic
burned sugar, and with the common name " essentia bina,"
has a limited but not infrequent use in making up beers.
Tartaric acid with alkaline carbonates is much used to
form carbonic acid in light and cheap sorts of beer. There
is at this time (1874) a report in the journals that colchi-
cum seeds are being used as a substitute for hops in beer
in Germany.
* Hager's Uutersuchungen, II, 324.
o(> CONSTITUENTS OF FERMENTED LIQUORS.
47. There is scarcely a doubt but that the cocculus
indicus has long been, and continues to be employed to
some extent in beer, both in Great Britain and in this
country, although the evidence for this opinion is mostly
presumptive rather than positive, and is mostly based on
the existence in commerce of a quantity of the drug much
larger than there is other known use for. Also, there are
various second-hand reports of its purchase by brewers.
It is, however, used to intoxicate and kill fish.*
So early as the reign of Queen Anne of England it
appears among the substances which brewers were for-
bidden to use.
48. There is scarcely any evidence that strychnia or
mix vomica has ever been added to beer.f
In 1850, it became reported in Great Britain that strych-
nia was extensively used in ales, the report being after-
\vard traced to a surmise of M. Pelletier, the celebrated
manufacturer of quinia, etc., at Paris, who had received
an unusually large order for strychnia to go to England.
By direction of the Analytical Sanitary Commission,
Messrs. Graham and Hoffman made analyses of forty
samples of new and old ales obtained from various places.
The samples, however, were all of the two largest ale
manufacturers, Allsopp & Sons, and Bass & Co.,
whose ales had come in question and who had asked for
* Correspondence relating to the use of cocculus indicus. Phar
Jour, and Trans. Vol. IV., 3d Series.
f A. CASSELMANX examined a beer called Bayrischer quass, at
Petersburg. It had a clear brown color, acid reaction, and very bit-
ter taste. Picric acid and aloes were not present. The extract by
animal charcoal, was extracted from residue with alcohol and then
with ether after alkali, and the result gave clear reactions for strych-
nia. Kager's Untersuchungen, }I U 337.
BEER. 3T
the examination. Graham and Hoffman found no traces
of strychnia in the forty samples ; their method being
competent to give clear indications when a gallon of beer
contained as much as half a grain of strychnia.*
The intentional addition of strychnia to beer by the
manufacturer or dealer, as a supposition, is certainly im-
probable, though less absurd than the adulteration of
whiskey with strychnia (16). Xot being an immediate
stimulant or intoxicant, the only purpose it can serve is
due to its bitterness, as a substitute for hops. Xow,
though intensely bitter, it is still more intensely poisonous,
so that it is not possible materially to increase the bitter-
ness of beer by strychnia without rendering it, in the
liberal doses in which it is drank, so violently poisonous
that the adulteration would commonly be discovered, to
the great danger of the vender. Hassall has stated
that it requires not less than three grains of acetate of
strychnia (free acetic acid being present in beer) to give
" a suitable and persistent bitterness " to a half a gallon of
water, and hence not less than one and a half grains of
strychnia as acetate are needed to furnish any material
increase of bitterness in half a gallon of beer. Neverthe-
less, one grain of strychnia, not acetate, renders six gal-
lons of water " perceptibly " bitter. One grain of strych-
nia is a full fatal dose ; one-half grain has produced a
fatal result, and will at least cause violent symptoms of
acute poisoning. Therefore, the drinking at one sitting
of one to two pints of beer rendered " suitably " bitter by
strychnia would, according to HassalFs data, in most cases
bring the beverage under immediate legal investigation.
Moreover, the effects of strychnia accumulate in the sys-
* Has?alFs Adulterations, p. 516.
38 CONSTITUENTS OF FKKMENTED LIQUORS.
tern for hours and days, and the symptoms of its poison-
ous action are distinctive and well known. The bitter
taste of strychnia is unlike that of hops, its intensity
increasing and becoming an unpleasant metallic bitter
aftertaste.
The cheapness of strychnia favors its attempted use,
as it is sold by dealers at a rate not over half a cent per
grain. Farther, there is no physical difficulty in its being
held in solution in beer. It has indeed been stated* that
the tannin from hops in beer would throw strychnia
wholly out of solution. But we have seen (43) that the
tannin acid of hops does not remain in beer. Moreover,
the insolubility of tannate of strychnia in 20,000 parts of
water is by no means assured, and with the solvent action
of acetic acid, as in beer, is quite improbable.
49. Picric acid (trinitrophenic acid) has long been
named among the adulterations of beer, but without good
evidence, and its use is now deemed by all authorities to
be improbable.
* Ure, in Ins Diet. Arts, Manuf., and Mines, 1, 165 (Appleton's
edition).
IDENTIFICATION OF ALCOHOL. 39
THE CHEMICAL EXAMINATION OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.
50, Etbylic alcohol is identified by its sensible proper-
ties (a) ; by the production of iodoform (b) ; by the pro-
duction of acetic ether (c) ; by certain deoxidizing effects
(d). If pure or mixed only with an equal or smaller pro-
portion of water, alcohol will be recognized by its odor,
and other sensible properties : if otherwise impure, before
testing for its identification, it should be separated by
fractional distillation collecting in the receiver only that
portion of the distillate formed while the thermometer in
the retort stands at 173 to 212 F. However, many sub-
stances more or less volatile are carried over by adhesion
to alcohol vapor, and very odorous substances in this way
continue to cover the odor of alcohol after repeated dis-
tillations.
a. When sufficiently separated, alcohol is a colorless,
limpid liquid, with a characteristic odor, penetrating and
somewhat agreeable.
b. When, in presence of alcohol, iodine is warmed in
contact with fixed alkali, iodoform is gradually produced
as a light yellow, crystalline precipitate. First iodate is
formed and then it is reduced (and joined with iodine) to
iodoform, thus :
6KIIO + 6T == KIOs + 5KI + 3I1 2 O
KIO 3 + C 2 H 6 O + 21 = = CIlLj + KCIIO 2 + 2H 2 O
Xow, if there is not proportionately enough water present,
the yellow precipitate of iodoform may be covered by a
white one of iodate, insoluble in the alcohol not yet cle-
40 IPENTTFK'ATIOX < >]' AU'OIK >L.
composed. This (wliite) iodate precipitate may afterward
change to iodoform, or for Jack of free iodine it may re-
main unchanged. Therefore, the reagents should be used
in definite proportions, as follows: a solution of iodide of
potassium in 5 parts of water, just saturated with iodine,
and a 10 per cent, solution of hydrate of potassium.
Take 3 to 5 c. c. of the distillate to be tested; 5 to G
drops of the potassa solution; warm to 100 to 120 F.
(38 to 48 C.), and add of the iodine solution, in drops,
slightly agitating after each drop, till the liquid is brown-
ish yellow. If, on standing a short time the iodine color
does not disappear, add, by drop, of the potassa solu-
tion till nearly or quite colorless. If the alcohol is only
in traces, iodoform will only appear after standing. It
crystallizes in pale yellow, scaly particles : under a power
of 200 to 400 diameters these are seen as well-defined
hexagonal stars and rosettes.
Acetone, aldehyde, acetic ether, amylene, and butyric
alcohol also yield iodoform in this test. Ether, acetic
acid, chloral and its hydrate, chloroform, and amylic
alcohol do not yield iodoform by this test. According to
Lieben (whose name is given to the test), me thy lie alcohol
does not respond to this test,"* but the earlier statement
that methylic alcohol also yields iodotorm is retained in
many re.cent works. The samples of wood spirit in com-
merce yield iodoform abundantly.
c. To a portion of the distillate or material to be tested
in a test-tube, add one-third its volume of sulphuric acid
and a drop or two of acetic acid or solution of acetate,
warm gently and set aside to cool. If alcohol is present,
* Annal. der Chem. uncl Pharm., suppl. B. vii., 137.
INTIMATION OK Al.foII* L. 41
the characteristic', penetrating, agreeable odor of acetic
ether will be apparent. Ether responds to this test.
d. Alcohol slowly reduces chromic acid to (green)
chromic oxide, in hot solution. The chromic acid may
be taken from potassic dichroinate and hydrochloric acid.
The alcohol as distilled, may be passed in vapor into (a
little of) the reagent by a delivery tube dipping therein.
Or, liquid alcohol may be digested with the reagent. But
this reaction is common to aldehyde, acetic acid, formic
acid, and some other volatile, as well as many non-volatile
bodies.
Permanganate of potassium solution is but very slowly
and gradually reduced the red color turning slightly
paler and brownish by action of pure ethylic alcohol
(distinction from methylic alcohol which quickly decolors
the solution).
Nitrate of silver solution is not darkened or disturbed
by pure alcohol (free from aldehyde and from the tannic
acid derived from casks). But after distillation from a,
very little dichromate and sulphuric acid, the distillate
containing aldehyde and acetic acid will quickly reduce
metallic silver from the nitrate.
Alkaline cupric solution is not reduced by alcohol.
Pure alcohol (free from tannic acid) does not darken after
addition of an equal volume of stronger water of ammonia.
51, Ethylic alcohol is determined quantitatively by first
separating it from all other substances except water, by
distillation ; then finding the specific gravity (or the boil-
ing point) of the mixture of alcohol and water, and lastly
consulting tables which give the proportion of alcohol in
its aqueous mixtures of different degrees of specific gra-
vity (or of boiling point). Distillation is necessary before
ESTIMATION OF ALCOHOL.
determination of alcohol in "distilled liquors" and "al-
cohols" of commerce, unless they are proven free from
fusel-oil and other extraneous material ; and (distillation
or evaporation) is inevitably necessary in the case of fer-
mented liquors.
The absence of water is shown if a few grains of
(white) anhydrous cupric sulphate upon a porcelain sur-
face are not immediately turned bluish when the alcohol
is dropped upon it.
The distillation should be so conducted as actually to
accomplish the separation from all other substances except
water. If the spirit or liquor taken has an acid reaction
(which may be due to a volatile acid), it must be carefully
neutralized with caustic alkali. The bulk of the distillate
should never be less than the bulk of the liquid taken,
and when the greatest exactness is required, twice the
bulk of the original liquid should be distilled, enough
water being always added to the contents of the retort so
that the residue of distillation shall measure not less than
one-fourth or more than one-half the bulk of the original
liquid. For most practical purposes, a distillate of equal
bulk and a residue of one-third bulk may be relied upon
and obtained as follows : Fill the specific gravity bottle
accurately at standard temperature with the alcoholic ma-
terial, wipe the rim and stopper, pour the contents into
the retort and rinse the bottle with distilled water two or
three times into the retort, taking in all water enough to
fill the bottle one-third full. Then distil into the speci-
fic gravity bottle till it is very nearly full and adjust the
temperature and add water accurately to fill it. If greater
exactness is desired, distil to fill a bottle exactly twice the
capacity of that in which the original liquid was measured,
ESTIMATION OF ALCOHOL. 43
adding to the retort water enough twice to h'll the smaller
bottle.
Fifty cubic centimeters (1.7 f. oz.) is a sufficient quan-
tity of material, if weights for the specific gravity can be
taken on a good chemical balance.
The heat applied in distillation should be limited to
212 F., the steam or water bath being most convenient.
To prevent frothing of wines in the retort Griffin
recommends the addition of a little tannic acid in the
retort about one grain to two fluid ounces.
52. The proportion of alcohol is most often stated ibi
specific gravity at 60 F. (15| C.). Other temperatures
are also employed. There are slight differences between
different authorities; as it is scarcely possible to attain
absolute exactness, and even the separation of anhydrous
alcohol has been approximated with varying closeness
The figures of the following tables give results sufficiently
near for all practical purposes. In the use of a table hav-
ing water at its maximum density, 4 C. (as Tralles') for
the unit of specific gravity ; or water at C. for the unit
(as Delezenne) ; the water contents of the specific gravity
bottle should of course be weighed at the temperature of
the unit. In the first of the two following percentage
tables, the temperature of the water unit is 59 F. ; in the
second, 60 F. The last column of the second percentage
table is to be understood as follows, for example : a bot-
tle which would hold 1.0000 parts by weight of water at
60 F., would hold 0.9986 parts of water at 77 F., or
0.9106 parts of fif ty-per-cent. alcohol at 77 F. provided
that the bottle was no larger at 77 than at 60. As the
bottle is larger at the higher temperature, for the utmost
exactness a correction may be made for this difference.
44 ESTIMATION OF ALCOHOL.
This may be done by use of the proportions given in the
following table by Dr. Pile, (the cubical expansion of glass
being -^f^ = 0.0000258 for each 1 C. between and
100 0.).
Temp. F. Apparent Sp. Gr. in glass bottles. True Sp. Gr.
59 1000.07 1000.08
60 1000.00 1000.00
61 999.92 999.91
62 999.84 999.82
63 999.72 999.72
64 999.68 999.63
65 999.60...., 999.53
66 999.51 999.43
67 999.42 999.33
68 999.33 999.23
69 999.24 999.12
70 999.14 999.01
71.. 999.04 998.90
72 998.94 998.78
73 898.83 998.66
74 998.72 998.53
75 998.60 998.40
76 998.48 998.27
77... .... 998.35 998.13
PE1ICEXTAGE OF ALCOHOL.
45
53, Percentage of Alcohol, by Weight and by Volume, and
of Water by Volume, for Specific Gravity at 15 C C, (59 C F.,
Water at same temperature being the unit,
STAMPFER'S Table. From HAGER'* I'nffmchungen, IT, 295.
PERCENTAGE.
PERCENTAGE.
PERCENTAGE.
i
^
^
._:
B
j>>
Tc
i>
Tc
te
I r -
~
5
1
By Volume.
'I
"3
By Volume.
g
^
J.
e
fc
4
fa
a
-.s
n
H
5
-
y
-71
Ale.
Ale.
Water.
c
Ale.
Ale.
Water.
i,
32
Ale.
u
1
UOOOO
0.
100.
0.9607
28.14
34
69.04
0.8954
60.38
68
35.47
o.998>
0.80
1
99.05
0.9595
29.01
35
68.12
0.8930
61.43
69
34.44
1,60
2
98.11
0.9582
29.88
36
67.20
0.8905
62.50
70
18.89
2.4"
3
97.17
0.9568
30.75
37
66.26
0.8880
63.58
"1
32.35
3.20
4
96.24
0.9553
31.63
38 65.32
0.8855
64.64
!'2
31.30
>.992
4.1 in
5
95.30
9.9538
32.52
39 64.37
6.8880
65.72
78
30.26
4.81
6
94.38
0.9522
33.40
40
63.42
0.8804
66.82
~4
29 20!
5.61
,-
93.45
0.9506
34.30
41
62.46
0.8778
67.93
75
28.15
1.9890
6.43
8
92.54
0.9490
35.18
42 61.50
69.04
76
_7.
7,84
9
91.62
>.9478
36.09
43 60.58
0.8725
7 ".10
' '7
26. Oi
8.06
10
0.9451)
37.00
44 59.54
0.8698
71.30
"8
24.9'.
0.9855
887
11
89.80
J.9439
37.90
45
58.61
0.8671
72.43
p g
23.9i'
).9S44
9.69
12
88.90
J.9421
38.82
46
57.64
0.8644
73.59
BO
22.88
, i .^S-SS
10.51
13
88.00
0.9403
39.74
47
50.66
0.8616
74.7-")
SI
21.76
11.33
14
87.09
0.9385
40.66
48
55.68
0.8588
75.91
82
20.68
1 . i 1 - 1 1
12.15
15
86.19
1 0.9366
41.59
49
54.70
0.8559
77.09
88
19.61
12.98
16
85.29
).9348
42.53
50
53.72
0.8530
78.29
84
18.55
0.&791
13.80
17
84.39
0.9328
43.47
51
52.73
0.8500
79.51
86
17.42
14.63
18
83.50
0.9308
44.41
52
51.74
0.84701 80.72
86
16.32
".'.771
15.46
19
82.60
JO. 928 ?
45.37
53
5o.74
0.8440 81.96
87
15. 28
11.9761
16.29
20
81.71
i 0.9267
46.33
54
49.74
0.8409 ^3.22
88
14.11;
).9753
17.12
21
80.81
0.9247
47.29
55
48.74
'0.8377 *4.47
89
13.01
.9741
17.96
22 79.92
0.9226
48.26
56
47.73
0.8344 85.74
90
11.88
: 0.9731
18.79
23
79.09
0.9205
49.24
57
46.73
; 0.8311
87.04
91
10.76
'.'.72!
19.63
24
78.13
0.918V
50.21
58
45.72
0.8277
88.37
92
9.62
0.9711
20.47
25
77.23
0.9161
51.20
59
44.70
0.8242 89.72
98
8.48
".9700
21.31
26 76.33
0.9139
52.20
60
43.68
0.8206 91.08
94
7.32
|( .9 69''
22.16
27 75.43
0.9117
53.19
61
42.67
0.8169 92.45
95
6.16
>.967!
23.00
i - 74.53
0.909:
54.20
62
41.65
0.8130J 93.89
96
4.97
i.66:
23.85
29 ; 73.62
0.907*
55.21
63
40.63
0.8089 95.35
97
3.77
>.9657
24.70
30 72,72
0.9041-
56.23
64
39 60
; 0.804
98
2.54
.9645
25.56
31 71.80
0.9026
57/25
65
88.58
0.8000 98.38
90
1.28
>.963o
26.41
32 70.89
0.900-
58.29
66
37.54
0.7951 100.0'.' 100
0.00
t.962C
27.27 33
69.96
59.33
'57
36.51
i
1
PERCENTAGE OF ALCOHOL
54. Percentage of Alcohol, by Weight, for Specific Gravity
at 15.6C. (60F.) and at 25C. (77F,),-Water at 15.6 D C.
being the unit in both cases.
*
H a
H 8
SFEC. GRAY.,
fc
SPEC. GRAY.,
w **
SPEC. GRAY.,
tj
WATER AT 60- 1.
Ij
WATER AT 00 "1.
o
WATER AT 60-1.
Ale.
Atf>0F.
At 77 P.
Ale.
AtOOF.
At77F.
Ale.
At 60F.
At 77F.
1.0000
0.9986
34
0.9511
. 9446
68
0.8769
0.8689
1
0.9981
0.9966
35
0.9490
. 9424
69
0.8745
0.8665
2
0.9965
0.9948 1
36
0.9470
0.9402
70
M. 8-721
0.8641
3
0.9947
0.9927
37
0.9452
0.9382
71
0.8&M5
0.861 1)
4
0.9930
0.9909
38
0.9434
0.9363
72
0.8672
it.8-V.tl
5
0.9914
0.9893
39
0.9416
0.9343
73
0.8649
0.8568
6
0.9898
0.9876
40
<>.9396
0.9323
74
0.8i52|
0.8544
7
0.9884
0.9862
41
0.9376
0.9302
75
U.SiiOS
0.8 -.22
8
0.9869
0.9846
42
0.9356
0.9280
76
0.8581
0,8500
9
0.9855
0.9831
43
. 9335
0.9259
77
. 8557
0.8471!
10
0.9841
0.9816
44
0.9314
0.9237
78
0.8533
0.8452
11
0.9828
0.9801
45
0.9292
0.9214
79
0.8508
0.8426
12
0.9815
0.9787
46
0.9270
0.9192
80
0.8i83
0.8401
13
0.9802
0.9773
47
0.9249
0.9171
81
0.8459
0.8J77
14
0.9789
0.9759
48
0.9228
0.9150
82
. 8434
0.83o2
15
0.9778
0.9746
49
0.9206
0.9128
83
0.8408
0.8-i.VJ
16
0.9766
0.9733
50
0.9184
0.9106
84
0.8382
0.8300
17
0.9753
0.9719
51
0.9160
0.9-081
85
0.8357
0.8275
18
0.9741
0.9706
52
0.9135
0.9056
8
0.8331
0.8249
19
0.9728
0.9692
53
0.9113
0.9034
87
0.8305
0.8228
20
0.9716
0.9678
54
. 9090
0.9011
83
0.8279
0.8197
21
0.9704
0.9661
55
0.9069
0.8989
89
. 8254
0.8173
22
0.9;!91
0.9646
56
. 9047
0.8969
',0
0.8228
0.8147
23
0.9678
0.9631
57
0.9025
0.8947
91
0.8199
0.8118
24
0.9665
0.9617
58
0.9001
0.8923
92
0.8172
0.8091
25
0.9652
0.9603
59
0.8979
0.8901
93
0. 8146
0.8064
26
0.9638
0.9590
60
0.8956
0.8878
94
0.8118
(i.si>:;7
27
0.9623
. 9574
Gl
0.8932
0.8853
95
0.8089
0.8008
28
0.9609
0.9556
62
0.8908
0.8829
96
0.8061
0.798 J
29
0.9593
0.9538
63
0.8886
0.8807
97
0.8031
O.V950
SO
0.9578
0.9521
64
0.8863
0.8784
98
O.SoOl
0.792U
31
0.9560
0.9500
65
0.8840
0.8761
99
0.7969
0.7888
32
0.9544
0.9482
66
0.8816
0.8736
100
0.7938
S3
0.9528
0.9465
67
0.8793
0.8713
Fowncs, PJill. Tra.n*., 1847. pp. 250, 251.
From Sriuihb's Table, Proc. Am. Phar.
( 3 ) From Squibb's Table, Proc. Am. Phar. AsfO. 1873, p. 500, obtained by
calculation from Trallcs' difference* for temperature.
EXAMINATION FOR FUSEL-OIL. 47
55. Correction of per cent, of alcohol for differences of
temperature in specific gravity may be made with approx-
imate correctness by the following formula: The number
of degrees 0. above or below the temperature given in the
table is to be multiplied by 0.4 ; the product to be added
to the percentage of the table when the temperature was
below that of the table, and subtracted when it was above.
Thus, by the second table of percentage, a spirit of the
specific gravity of 0.9416 at 15.6 C. has 39 per cent,
alcohol. If at 25 C. the same specific gravity be obtained
we subtract from 39 (25 15.6) x 0.4 or 3.76. This gives
us 35.24 as the per cent, of alcohol for specific gravity of
0.9416 at 25 C., very nearly that given in the table
(interpolation for 35.24 per cent, giving specific gravity
0.94167).
56. Volume per cent, corresponding to weight per cent,,
and the reverse, may be calculated by the following for-
mulae : Let s be the specific gravity of the spirit under
consideration ; s the specific gravity of anhydrous alcohol
at same temperature ; w the weight per cent, of alcohol
by the table (or v the volume per cent, of alcohol by the
table). Then
w X s -.- s == v
and v x s -f- s = w
The volume per cent, of water in a spirit is found by
multiplying the weight per cent, of water (100-weight
per cent, of alcohol) by the specific gravity of the spirit.
57. The examination for Fusel-oil (14, 16, 19) especial-
ly in distilled spirits is always an important part of the
duty of the analyst, and a part requiring much care and
discretion. Unfortunately, while the importance of the
inquiry appertains to the quantity of fusel-oil, it is scarcely
48 CHEMICAL EXAMINATION OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.
possible to make an exact quantitative determination
of it, and it is itself of a variable composition. Never-
theless, it is not difficult to ascertain whether notable
and objectionable quantities of fusel-oil are present, and
whether such proportions constitute a slight or an
excessive impurity. Experience enables the analyst to
decide this question readily and certainly.
58, Amylic alcohol of fermentation is a colorless and
transparent limpid liquid of specific gravity 0.810, boil-
ing at 132-3 C. (270 F.). It has a suffocating odor
and burning taste. It dissolves in 30 to 40 parts of water
(the excess floating), and is soluble in all proportions of
alcohol, ether, chloroform, benzole, petroleum naphtha,
and fixed and volatile oils. It leaves an oil spot on paper.
It takes fire with some difficulty, and burns with a smoky
flame.
59, The recognition of fusel-oil requires that it be first
concentrated by evaporating off the alcohol or fractional
distillation, or by separation with ether. The simplest
way is evaporation of the spirit from the palm of the
hand, or from a (warmed) evaporating dish or plate, and
observation of the odor obtained after dissipation of alco-
hol vapor. More efficient concentration is secured in the
distillation of the alcohol, as directed in 51, the (warm) resi-
due in the retort being examined by observation of odor and
by tests. With fermented liquors, and whenever solids,
etc., are present in the residue, it is almost indispensable
after removing the ethylic alcohol to distil off the fusel-oil
using a bath of paraffine or chloride of calcium and
receiving for examination the distillate formed between
110 and 133 C. (230 and 270 F.) Another and a
satisfactory mode of concentration is by adding to the spirit
FUSEL-OIL. 49
in a test-tube an equal volume of pure ether arid agitating;
then adding to the whole an equal volume of water or
enough (after agitation) to cause the separation of the
principal portion of the ether. The ether layer contains
the fusel-oil and is allowed to rise, then decanted (or taken
oft' with a pipette) into an evaporating dish, and the ether
dispelled at ordinary temperature (warming gently at the
last to remove ethylic alcohol). The residue is examined
for fusel-oil (also for flavoring ethers, volatile oils, alde-
hyde, etc.) * Concentration with ether or with benzole
or petroleum naphtha may also be often applied to the
residue of distillation with advantage.
60. The odor of fusel-oil is slightly irritating to the
sense, somewhat disagreeable, and usually excites cough-
ing. It is characteristic, and must be observed from a
known sample (commercial amylic alcohol). The differ-
ent fusel-oils (15) are recognized from each other by their
differently characteristic odors, by the senses of an expert,
and in this manner only.
61. The chemical tests for fusel-oil depend firstly and
always on the identification of its chief constituent, amy-
lic alcohol ; and secondly, sometimes, upon finding vola-
tile fatty acids.
a. AVhen warmed with 1J parts of concentrated sul-
pliuric acid, a red liquid, amyl-sulphuric acid (HC 5 If nSO*)
is formed. This product is of a viscid consistence, is sol-
uble in water and in alcohol, and is decomposed in dis-
tillation. As sugar and many other organic substances
give brown to red-brown colors with concentrated sul-
phuric acid, the appearance of a dull red color on the
* Duflos' angewandten, chemischen Analyse, S. 306 ; from Bott-
ger's polyt. Notizbl., 1870, S. 110.
3
50 CHEMICAL EXAMINATION OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.
application of this test to the residue of evaporation is not
an indication of any value. The test should be applied
to the fractional distillate (at 230-270 F.), when a red
color, even if pale, is good evidence of fusel-oil.
b. When digested or distilled with sulphuric acid and
acetic acid or an acetate, fusel-oil yields the acetate of
amyl, having the odor of pear-oil and volatile at 133 C.
(272 F.). Unless most of the ethylic alcohol be previously
removed, the odor of acetic ether (50, c) will mask that
of amylic ether. (Acetate of amyl alone represents "jar-
gonelle pear-oil ; " 30 parts of acetate of amyl with 1 part
acetate of ethyl, " bergamot pear-oil ").
c. When digested or distilled with sulphuric acid and
dichromate of potassium, fusel-oil yields valerianic acid,
recognized by its characteristic odor, and distilling at 165
C. (329 F.). Unless the ethylic alcohol has been nearly
all removed, the odor of acetic acid will cover that of va-
lerianic.
d. The volatile acids of fusel-oil may be detected as fol-
lows. About 30 c. c. (1 f. oz.) of the alcoholic liquor is
agitated with 2 or 3 c. c. of solution of potassa and eva-
porated by very gentle heat to the bulk of 2 or 3 c.c.
This residue is cooled and treated with 5 or 6 c.c. of con-
centrated sulphuric acid, when the odor of valerianic
acid and butyric acid will reveal the presence of these
constituents of fusel-oil (15).*
e. Amylic alcohol decolors permanganate solution
much sooner than ethylic alcohol (50, d). The volatile
fatty acids of fusel-oil are still stronger reducing agents,
and darken nitrate of silver.
f. To a portion of the original spirit in a test-tube, a
* After GOEBEL. Hager's Untersuchungen, II., 299.
METIIYLIC ALCOHOL. 51
few small fragments of iodide of potassium are added,
with gentle agitation. If the spirit contains 0.5 or 1.0
per cent, of fusel-oil, in a few minutes a distinct yellow
color appears. The tint is even visible if 0.2 per cent, of
fusel-oil is present. The reaction is due to the volatile
acids and not to the amylic alco.hol.f
g. The quantity of fusel-oil may be obtained approxi-
mated, bv carefully separating it through fractional distil-
lation and water washing (59). Xot less than 100 c. c. in any
case, and for the best results 1000 c.c. of the spirit should
be distilled. The fusel-oil distillate is taken (in a test-
tube or cylindrical test-glass) while the thermometer is
110 to 133 C. (230 to 272 F.) in the retort with care
to avoid the empyreumatic products which may arise from
the residue if the latter temperature is much exceeded.
It is also a proper precaution to redistil the aqueous por-
tion that formed between 98 and 110 C. (208 and
230 F.) adding any residue after the latter temperature
is attained to the previous fusel-oil distillate. The latter
is now set aside for about 12 hours: after the first hour
or two, if no water layer appears at the bottom, one-fourth
bulk of water is added, with agitation. After expiration
of the 12 hours, take out the water layer at the bottom
with a narrow pipette, and weigh the remainder as fusel-
oil. The use of very much water in washing fusel-oil is
impracticable, on account of the sparing solubility of
amylic alcohol in water and the liberal solubility of butv-
lic and p ropy lie alcohols in the same solvent.
62. To examine for Methylic Alcohol (16, 11), add a
little crude animal charcoal (or powdered wood charcoal,
t BOUVIER: Zeitschr, Analyt. Chsm,, xi., 343. Abstract in Jour.
Chem. Soc., 1873, 532, Goo.
52 CHEMICAL EXAMINATION OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.
and enough alkaline carbonate to neutralize any acid reac-
tion), and distil at 65 to 74 C. (150 to 165 F.). Al-
dehyde may come over below that temperature see 71.
If a distillate is obtained, it is observed for the peculiar
odor of wood spirit, and examined as follows :
a. The addition ofpotassa, and wanning by immersion
of the test-tube in hot water, produces a brown color if
wood spirit is present. (Ethylic alcohol is turned brown
only after long digestion).
b. A portion of the distillate is treated with a few
drops of a very dilute solution of mercuric chloride, then
with potassa solution in excess, agitated and slightly
warmed. In presence of methylic alcohol the precipitate
of mercuric oxide is prevented or dissolved after warm-
ing. The precipitate may be reproduced, flocculent and
yellow-white in one portion by acetic acid, in another
portion by boiling. [E. J. REYNOLDS.]
c. To a small portion of the distillate add enough
dilute solution of permanganate of potassium to give a red
color and leave transparent. If methylic alcohol is pre-
sent the color will turn to brown within ten minutes.
d. In a retort of about 60 c. c. capacity, distil 2 c. c.
of the distillate with 2 grammes of powdered dichromate
of potassium, 25 drops of sulphuric acid and 15 c. c. of
water ; first digesting 15 minutes and then distilling 15
c. c. Neutralize the last distillate with sodic carbonate,
evaporate to 7 c.c., acidulate with acetic acid and test for
Formic Acid by boiling with silver nitrate. If formic acid
is present the silver will be reduced (72).
e. The quantitative determination is only approximate.
It may be based on the saturating power of the (crude)
Formic acid, produced as in d, and measured by a volu-
ACIDS. 53
metric solution of alkali, or by treating with baric car-
bonate, filtering and washing, and determining the barium
in solution as a sulphate.*
For closer separation of methylic products from eth-
ylic products, Hager recommends the following method,
based on the aqueous solubility of methyl oxalate and in-
solubility of ethyl oxalate. Place in a retort 55 grammes
of crystallized oxalic acid, 35 grammes of sulphuric
acid, and 25 grammes of the distillate from animal charcoal
obtained below 74 C. Digest 10 hours and distil from an
oil-bath at 160 to 180 C. (320 to 356 F.). To the coin
pleted distillate add 25 times its volume of water, agitate,
allow to subside, and decant the clear water solution.
Treat this with potassa in excess, digest in a close bottle,
acidulate with acetic acid, add acetate of potassium and
chloride of calcium. Wash the precipitate of calcic oxal-
ate, dry, ignite to carbonate (adding a fragment of carbon-
ate of ammonium) and weigh. CaCO 3 x 0.64=methylic
alcohol.
Concerning Pyroligneous Acid, see 77.
63. The Acids to be considered in the examination of
alcoholic liquors are chiefly the following:
In Alcohols: acetic acid (64), volatile fatty acids (Old, 75).
In Distilled Liquors : acetic acid (64), its ethyl ether (70),
tannic acids (86), ethers of volatile fat acids (75),
ether of nitrous acid (78), sulphuric acid (89, 80).
In Wines: tartaric acid and its acid salt (82-3), total
acid (81), tannic acid (86), acetic acid and ether (64),
butyric acid and ether (73-4), ethers of volatile fatty
acids (75), succinic acid (85), lactic acid (85), carbonic
acid (88), sulphuric acid (89), sulphates (80), ethyl
nitrite (78), oxalic acid (84).
* Farther, Prescott's Proximate Organic Analysis, pp. 57, 58.
54 CHEMICAL EXAMINATION OF ALCOHOLIC LIQl'OKS.
In Beer : acetic acid (64), lactic acid (85), butyric acid
(73), formic acid (72), carbonic acid (88), succinic
acid (85), tartaric acid (83), chlorides (109), sulphates
(113).
64. Acetic acid is the only acid likely to be present in
Alcohol, where it is revealed by the acid reaction (8.11).
In Distilled Liquors, an acid reaction may be due to other
acids as adulterations (14). In Wine and Beer, acetic
acid is almost the only normal volatile acid (beside the
gas carbonic anhydride and the traces of butyric and for-
mic acids) but it has to be separated from the non-volatile
acids which are relatively more abundant in wines but less
abundant in beer than acetic (24c, 26, 42). Acetic ether
is of frequent occurrence in distilled spirits (70).
Acetic acid in Alcohols, Distilled Liquors, or distil-
lates from Wine or Beer may be concentrated for iden-
tification by adding fixed alkali to a neutral or slight alka-
line reaction, and evaporating nearly to dryness. The
residue is then tested as an acetate, for production of
acetic ether, red solution of ferric acetate, acetone, etc.
It will be observed that any acetic acid derived from
acetic ether in the liquor will be included in this deter-
mination.
65. The quantity of acetic acid maybe determined in
alcohols, distilled liquors, or distillates from wine or beer,
by volumetric method, saturating with a deci-normal so-
lution of alkali, on the supposition that no other free acid
is present. Of a solution of 4.000 grammes NallO in
1000 c. c., each c. c. neutralizes 0.006 grammes of nC 2 H 3 02.
(The alkali solution may be standardized by adjusting it
to a deci-normal solution of oxalic acid made by weighing
6.300 grammes perfect crystals for 1000 c. c. solution).
EXAMINATION FOR ACIDS. 55
66. The distillation of fermented liquors for determination
of acetic acid is more nearly complete if about an equal
bulk of water is first added to the wine or beer. At least
four-fifths of the whole are then distilled off, with use of
a paraffine or chloride of calcium bath. It is not easy to
obtain the last traces of the acetic acid without danger of
forming empyreumatic acids.
67. The acetic acid may be distilled frcm Wine sepa-
rately from the alcohol, by neutralizing the wine with
baryta, distilling off the alcohol, adding excess of phos-
phoric acid, and then distilling off the acetic acid.
68. Acetic acid may be determined, in the presence
of the non-volatile acids of wine, without distillation, by
forming soluble barium salt, as follows : Add pure car-
bonate of barium, in slight excess, filter and wash, preci-
pitate the barium acetate in the filtrate by dilute sulphu-
ric acid (with the conditions requisite in quantitative
separation of barium sulphate), wash, dry, ignite, and
weigh.
BaS0 4 : 2I1C 2 II 3 O 2 :: 1 : 0.515
69. This method is employed in determining diseased
wine as such (26). But it will be observed again that so
much butyric acid and formic acid as are present will be
included in the result (according to their equivalence to
acetic acid) just as they would be after distillation.
Also, succinic acid present in wine and beer will mostly
remain in solution as a barium salt; and the lactic acid of
beer will be wholly included in this estimation as acetic
acid, while these two acids are excluded by distillation.
70. Acetic Ether, or ethyl acetate, is of frequent occur-
rence in liquors (20, 21, 24c, 37). It is a transparent
liquid of specific gravity of about 0.93. boiling at 77 C.
56 CHEMICAL EXAMINATION OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.
(170 F.), and having a pleasant, refreshing, penetrating
and slightly acetous odor. It is neutral to test paper.
When heated with caustic alkalies (64) or strong sulphuric
acid, it is decomposed into alcohol and acetic acid ; but
it can be rectified from oxide of lead. It dissolves in 12
or 18 parts of water and in all proportions of alcohol,
ether, chloroform, and bi-sulphide of carbon. Acetic ether
distils over with the first part of the alcohol of wines and
liquors. It is, also, extracted by washing with ether, after
enough water is added to throw the ether out of solution,
according to the method given for fusel-oil in the last
part of 59, the ether being evaporated at ordinary tem-
peratures, by turning the dish. Petroleum naphtha may
be employed instead of the ether. Or, distillation from
a water-bath at 172 F., after dilution with much water.
Acetic ether is easily recognized by its odor, unless in
presence of powerfully odorous substances. It is farther
identified by yielding reactions for acetic acid, being at
the same time volatile and neutral to test paper before
decomposition.
71. Aldehyde is very apt to accompany acetic acid
and in alcohol and distilled liquors it may be present when
acetic acid is not (8, 12, 20). Acetic aldehyde is a thin,
colorless, transparent liquid of specific gravity 0.800, boil-
ing at about 21 C. (70 F.) above which temperature
it exists in alcohol in the condition of a dissolved gas. It
mixes in all proportions with water, alcohol, and ether,
but is separated from water by saturating it with chloride
of calcium. It does not redden litmus, but it forms salts
by substitution of metals for one atom of its hydrogen
(CgH^O). The identification of aldehyde in alcohol or
distilled liquors requires that it shall first be separated
EXAMINATION FOR FORMIC ACID. '
by distillation at a temperature low enough to leave all
formic acid and methylic alcohol behind (11). Dilute the
spirit to be examined, with water, till it is not over 20
per cent, alcohol ; add chloride of calcium nearly to satu-
ration ; and distil from a water-bath, below 130 F. (55
C.), into an ice-cold receiver. Aldehyde has a pungent
and suffocating odor. Nitrate of silver solution is quickly
blackened by aldehyde or the reduced silver forms a
mirror coating on the test-tube. Potas'sa solution turns
brown on warming with aldehyde. Nitric acid, or chlo-
rine water, changes it at once to acetic acid. (The pre-
sence of aldehyde in alcohol, or distilled spirits, or wine
or beer distillates, causes a prompt reduction of silver and
decoloration of permanganate, and must be considered in
testing for Methylic alcohol and Formic acid).
72. Formic acid is not found in alcoholic liquors in no-
table quantities, except in diseased wines (26) or "sour"
beer, or from contamination with wood spirit (62). It
distils with the last of the alcohol and first of the acetic
acid (for boiling point, see 11). It may be separated from
acetic acid by neutralizing the distillate with sodium car-
bonate, evaporating at a gentle heat to near dryness, and
distilling the residue with sulphuric acid at a temperature
below the boiling point of acetic acid. Formic acid has
a pungent and irritating odor and an irritating effect on
the skin. When free, it slowly reduces nitrate of silver
in warm solution ; when neutralized it precipitates white
formate of silver, which darkens quickly on heating.
Chromic acid not in excess is gradually turned green, and
mercuric chloride solution is gradually reduced, by hot
solution of formic acid or formate. Ferric chloride gives
a red solution (not unlike acetate). With alcohol and
3*
5b CHEMICAL EXAMINATION OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.
sulphuric acid at a gentle heat, formic acid produces
ethyl formate, an ether distilling at 55 C., and having a
strong and agreeable odor like that of peach-kernels.
Concerning the quantitative determination of formic acid,
see 62e. Formate of ethyl enters into some artih'cial
peach-essences, and as such may be used in flavoring wines
and brandies (36).
73. Butyric acid free and as ethyl butyrate occurs
only in very slight proportions as a product- of fermenta-
tion (7), in wine and brandy and in beer (from lactic acid,
42). Its etherization is easy, so that in liquors it is gen-
erally combined as ethyl butyrate, except in beer. In
wine there is less lactic than butyric acid, and this is
mostly in ether ; in beer there is less butyric than lactic
acid and this is mostly free. Butyric ether is a common
addition in rum (18), and not infrequent in brandy (20),
and in wine (37). Butyric acid is a colorless mobile li-
quid, of specific gravity 0.974, and boiling at 156 C.
(314 F.). It is soluble in all proportions of water, alco-
hol, ether, chloroform, but not soluble in concentrated
aqueous solutions of freely soluble salts. The metallic
butyrates are soluble in water, those of lead and silver
sparingly. Butyric acid will be mostly obtained with
fusel-oil, by the methods given in 59, and especially by
the method given in 6id. Butyric acid is identified
chiefly by its odor and that of its ethyl ether. The free
acid has the odor of rancid butter, but somewhat less of-
fensive, and obscurely acetous. It is a moderately strong
and very persistent odor, not much diminished by dilut-
ing the acid but increased by warming it. The metallic
butyrates are odorless while intact. Butyrate of ethyl has
the odor of pine-apple, strong and persistent Ft is readily
FOR ETHERS AND VOLATILE OILS. 59
formed by digestion of alcohol, butyric acid, and sulphuric
acid.
74. Butyric Ether, ethyl butyrate, (IS, 37," 9), is a col-
orless liquid, lighter than water, in which it is very slightly
soluble ; but soluble in all proportions of alcohol and
ether. It distils at 119 C. (216 F.), and is mostly sep-
arated with fusel-oil by the methods given in 59, yielding
butyric acid by the method described in 61d.
75. The less volatile Fatty Acids the 5th, Cth, 7th, 8th,
and 9th of the Acetic Series (11) formed as mentioned
in 8 are concerned in the examination of liquors either
as constituents of fusel-oil or as sources of artificial bou-
quet "Oenanthyc ether" or "Pelargonic ether" (20).
In any case they and their ethers will be separated by the
same methods employed for fusel-oil (59). Their identi-
fication, as free acids or as ethers, depends upon their
odors. The odor of the ethers is agreeable but slightly
suffocating ; that of the free acids, rancid and irritating.
The ethers decompose and yield free acids when treated
according to Cld. Artificial bouquet, in wines or bran-
dies, may be so made and used as not to be distinguished
from natural bouquet, by chemical tests.
Tartrate of Ethyl, named among the non-volatile con-
stituents of wine, in paragraph 2-i, and a substance doubt-
less of importance to the flavor of wines, is not easily
separated. It is decomposed, at comparatively high tem-
peratures, with separation of pyrotartaric acid. It is
miscible, in all proportions, with water, alcohol, and ether.
From its solubility in water, it is not to any considerable
extent removed by ether washing.
76. Volatile Oils constitute frequent additions to alco-
holic liquors. Among these have been mentioned juniper
60 CHEMICAL EXAMINATION OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.
and turpentine in Gin (17); aromatics and bitter almond oil
(nitrobenzole?) in Wines (36, 37), and Brandies (21);
stimulant aromatics in Liqueurs (22) ; pungent aromatics in
Beer (46). Also, not an " addition," hop oil in Beer (42
and 43).
These oils will be partly or wholly carried over in
distilling off the alcohol (50), being also to some extent
received with the fusel-oil (59). A satisfactory method
is the extraction of the retort residue, or the distillate, or
both, with ether or petroleum naphtha or benzole, accord-
ing to the process given (last) in 59. The odor is, of
course, the principal means of identification, but such
color-tests and other qualitative resources as are known to
chemists, for identification of the individual oils in ques-
tion, should not be neglected.
Oil of juniper has the composition and the sparing
solubility in alcohol of turpentine oil, but does not with
hydrochloric acid form a solid hydrochlorate like the lat-
ter. It deflagrates with iodine.
Oil of Turpentine forms solid hydrochlorates of cam-
phorous odor when treated with hydrochloric acid in the
cold. With iodine it turns green and detonates.
Hop Oil will partly distil with the alcohol ; but a
larger portion remains in the retort with the hop bitter
(105). The oil in the distillate may usually be concen-
trated by extraction with ether or naphtha (with addition
of water). Both the oil and the bitter of hop are ex-
tracted from the retort residue by ether. The odor is
very intense.
Oil of Bitter Almonds is not colored with nitric acid ;
with sulphuric acid it forms a thick crimson liquid. Ex-
posed to the air, it forms crystals of benzoic acid. In its
FOR CREOSOTE AND PYROLIGNEOUS ACID. 61
fresh state, it usually contains from 3 to M per cent, of
hydrocyanic acid, but in alcoholic liquors this minute
proportion must soon decompose.
Nitrobenzole or artificial oil of bitter almonds is an
oily faint-yellow liquid of specific gravity 1 .2, insoluble
in water, soluble in alcohol, ether, and chloroform. It
boils at 4:00 F. being carried over with vapor of water at
212 F. like most volatile oils. Digested with a little
reduced iron and a few drops of acetic acid, in a test-tube,
it is reduced to anilin. The latter, with chlorinated lime
turns violet to red (acidulated becomes rose-red) ; or with
dilute sulphuric acid and peroxide of manganese, in solu-
tion, forms a purple-red to rose-red color.
Many of the volatile oils are added to liquors in the
natural drug or tincture of the same as of cloves, allspice,
etc. In most of these cases the oils are accompanied with
non-volatile aromatics, found among the residual solids
(10H).
77. Creosote, sometimes found in whiskey (16), will be
separated, if at all, in the same manner as the volatile
oils, that is, with fusel-oil, best by extraction with ether
or pretroleum naphtha or benzole (59). But the quantity
employed is too small for extraction by ordinary methods.
Creosote is a colorless or yellowish liquid of specific gra-
vity 1.060, boiling at about 200 C. (392F.), soluble in
60 to 70 parts of water, freely soluble in ether, chloroform,
benzole, bisulphide of carbon, and pretroleum naphtha.
Very small quantities are detected by the odor. It
forms a blue color with solution of ferric chloride, and a
red color with nitric acid.
Pyroligneous Acid, or Crude Wood Spirit, contains
methylic alcohol, acetic acid, and creosote.
62 CHEMICAL EXAMINATION OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.
78. Nitrite of Ethyl is a frequent addition to Brandies
and sometimes to Wines (20 and 21, 37), and free Nitric
acid, Nitric oxide, and Acetic acid result from the gradual
decomposition of the nitrous ether. Nitrite of ethyl is
a yellowish liquid of specific gravity 0.947, boiling at 18
C. (64 F.), soluble in 48 parts of water and in all propor-
tions of alcohol, ether, and chloroform. The officinal
spirit of nitrous ether properly 4 or 5 per cent, of
nitrite of ethyl but often much less has a variable speci-
fic gravity of 0.837 and when of full strength boils at 63
C. (145 F.). In distillation of liquors, the nitrite of
ethyl and nitrous acid will come over with the first por-
tion of the alcohol, the nitric acid will partly appear with
the more aqueous distillate and partly with the portion
taken for fusel-oil. A nitrite, with acetic acid, liberates
iodine from iodide of potassium, coloring starch or bisul-
phide of carbon. Nitric acid forms a color layer with a
cold solution of 'ferrous salt. A more efficient search for
nitrous ether and the products of its decomposition is
made by adding to the liquor taken for examination,
potassa to slight alkaline reaction, evaporating nearly to
dryness (avoiding a heat above that of the water-bath near
the close of the evaporation), and then testing the residue
for nitrite and nitrate together, by strong sulphuric acid
and solution of ferrous sulphate.
79. Ether has been found as an addition to Alcohol
(12). Such alcohol (containing more water than its spe-
cific gravity denotes) burns with a luminous name. By
adding an equal volume of water and distilling at 120 to
170 F. into an ice-cold receiver, a distillate is obtained
having the odor and solubilities of ether.
80. "Oil of Wine" and " Oil of Grapes " (20) are names
EXAMINATION FOR ACII>>. 63
applied to variable mixtures of ethyl and cthylene sul-
phates, boiling at 155 to 280 C. (312 to 536 R). They
are in small part obtained in the fusel-oil portion of the
distillate, but mostly left behind in the retort, or decom-
posed before distillation. They are separated and iden-
tified as follows : Distil off all the alcohol, according to
51, limiting the heat to that of a water-bath, and extract
the residue with ether, in a test-tube, as directed for fusel-
oil in 59. Then evaporate off the ether, add a little solu-
tion of chloride of barium and evaporate to dry ness. If
the residue does not wholly dissolve on digestion witli
water, it is evidence of the presence of ethereal sulphates
in the liquor taken.
81. The Total Acid in Wines (24) is determined volu-
metrically in the entire wine, and stated as equal to so much
tartaric acid. For this purpose, a normal solution of soda
is prepared (40.000 KallO in 1,000 c. c.) adjusting it to
neutralize equal measures of a solution of 63.000 grammes
of perfectly crystallized oxalic acid in 1000 c. c. (as di-
rected for determination of acetic acid in 65). Xow
measure out 75 c. c. of the wine (H^EUC^To x 2)
into a porcelain evaporating dish of 200 to 400 c. c. capa-
city. If the wine is very deep colored, add water, in
equal measure or enough to make the margin transparent.
If the wine is pale, add solution of litmus. Then add of
the normal solution of alkali to the neutral point, using
red and blue litmus papers, if necessary, to fix the neutral
point. The number of cubic centimetres of normal solu-
tion of alkali required is the number of tenths of per cent,
(or parts in 1000) of tartaric acid and its equivalent acid
in the wine. (XaHCU=40) neutralizes
150)].
64 CHEMICAL EXAMINATION OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.
82. HAGEE gives the following method for the approx
imate determination of free tartaric acid and equivalent acid
tartrate in Wine.* Take 250 c. c. wine ; add alcohol if
necessary to make 15 to 17 per cent, of alcohol by weight ;
then add, drop by drop with stirring, a concentrated water
solution of 3 to 4 grammes of normal (" neutral ") tartrate
of potassium, and set aside, at 12 to 15 C. (54 to 60
F.), for 3 hours. The crystalline precipitate of acid tar-
trate of potassium is drained on a tared filter, washed
first with a little dilute alcohol, and then with 90 per cent,
alcohol, dried at 100 C. and weighed. The weight mul-
tiplied by 0.4 approximately equals the amount of free
tartaric acid in the 250 c. c. of wine taken.
(2KHC 4 H 4 O C : IJgCJ^Oe :: 1 : 0.4)
The quantity of Acid Tartrate of Potassium in Wine may
be approximately ascertained by throwing it out of solu-
tion by addition of alcohol and ether: Place 10 c. c. of the
wine in a flask, add thereto 50 c. c. of a mixture of equal
measures of alcohol and ether, stopper and set aside 21
hours. Gather the loose deposit upon a filter and wash
it with the mixture of alcohol and ether, also wash the
crystalline crust on the inner surface of the flask with the
same mixture. Transfer the filter with its contents to
the flask, add about 20 c. c. of water and boil to dissolve
the acid tartrate. Determine the acid power by a deei-
normal solution of alkali (81). Each c. c. deci-normal
solution indicates 0.0188 grammes of acid tartrate of
potassium.
83. The presence or absence of tartaric acid i n Wine (32)
may be investigated as follows. Evaporate about 100 c. c.
to dryness on a water-bath, dissolve in 8 to 12 c. c. of hot
* Hager's Untersuchungen, II., 311.
EXAMINATION FOR ACIDS. 05
water, and filter through thoroughly purified animal char-
coal and wash with a little hot water. Add a few drops
of concentrated solution of acetate of potassium, and to the
whole a double measure of alcohol, and set aside for a few
minutes. If a precipitate appears, wash it upon a filter
with alcohol until the washings no longer respond to
Trommer's test for sugar (94). If a tartrate, when dried
and separately ignited, the precipitate exhales the odor
of burning sugar. (Citric acid and Malic acid when
heated evolve, each, irritating and characteristic odors).
The precipitate of tartrate blackens when warmed with
sulphuric acid.
For detection of tartaric acid in Beer (46) the above
method may likewise be employed, adding one-fourth
volume of alcohol before filtering through the animal
charcoal.
84. Oxalic Acid in Wines (32) may be detected as fol-
lows. Evaporate to one-fourth measure, neutralize with
ammonia, add calcium chloride solution, digest in the cold,
and filter. Wash the filter with a little dilute hydro-
chloric acid, and then with water, and add, to the filtrate,
ammonia in slight excess. If a precipitate appears, not
soluble in acetic acid, it is evidence of oxalic acid.
85. Lactic Acid is in very small proportion a normal
constituent of Beer (42) and doubtless often exists in
Wine (7). It is a non-volatile liquid acid, all the salts of
which are soluble in water. Of the normal constituents
of wines and beer, it is the only non-volatile organic acid
whose barium salt is soluble in dilute alcohol (or, except
succinic acid, soluble in water). By this means it may
with great labor be separated, but its separation has not
come within the scope of analysis for practical purposes.
CC EXAMINATION OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.
Also, this is true of Succinic Acid, a constant constituent,
in small proportion, of Wines and Beer (5, 24, 42). It is
a white crystalline solid, subliming in a glass matrass with
suffocating vapors and deposition of lustrous silky needles.
It burns in the air with a blue flame. It is soluble in
water, alcohol, and in ether. Solutions of its alkaline
salts precipitate ferric salts brownish pale-red, and preci-
pitate barium salts in presence of alcohol.
86. Tannic Acid is a natural constituent of Wines (24)
and to the extent that it may be derived from the wood
of casks, is an incidental constituent of nearly all liquors
in very slight proportion (14). Little of that of the hop
is retained in Beer (43). Either by itself, or as an accom-
paniment of colors or aromatics, some variety of tannic
acid is a frequent addition to liquors, especially to Bran-
dies (21) and Wines (25, 33, 35). Its reactions need to
be considered especially with reference to their interfer-
ence with operations bearing upon other substances.
The astringent acids of Wines are tannic and gallic
acids. That of oak-wood and that of hops is quercitannic
acid, the physiological tannic acid of WAGNEK, and which
according to his authority is not a glucoside.
Tannic acids are non-volatile solids, soluble in water,
alcohol, and in ordinary ether. With caustic alkalies,
they form brown to black-brown solutions, decolored
again by oxalic acid. They completely precipitate all
solutions of salts of alkaloids, these precipitates being-
more or less readily soluble in acids. They precipitate
most of the heavy metals from solutions of their salts,
the precipitates easily decomposed by acids. They give
blue to blue-black impalpable precipitates with ferric
salts. They are removed from solution by zinc oxide
EXAMINATION FOR TANNIC ACID. 67
and cnpric oxide. They precipitate starch, dextrine, and
albumen, and densely precipitate gelatine. If one drop of
tannic acid solution is mixed with 1 c. c. of a hundredth-
normal solution of iodine (gallic acid and hydriodic acid
being formed) and the mixture now treated with a drop
of very dilute alkali, a bright red color will be produced.*
Tannic acids quickly decolorize the red solution of per-
manganate, and they reduce the warm alkaline copper
solution.
The glucosic fermentation of gallo-tannic acid is pre-
vented by alcohol, and evidently cannot occur in distilled
liquors. Hence, aside from the statement, above men-
tioned, that the oak-wood tannic acid is not a glucoside,
it appears that the tannin of the cask cannot introduce
sugar into distilled liquors.
87. In examination of Wine, Beer, or Distilled Spirit for
tannic acid, evaporate for qualitative examination 100 to
500 c. c., for quantitative examination 500 c. c. upon a
water-bath to a syrup if it be wine or beer, to near dry-
ness if it be a distilled spirit and extract with a mixture
of equal parts of alcohol and ether. Filter if not clear,
evaporate to dryness, and dissolve in water. Qualitative :
the solution precipitates gelatine, colors ferric salts inky,
alkalies brown, bleaches permanganate, etc., as given in
last paragraph. Quantitative : a. Precipitate with a clear
solution of normal cupric acetate, filter, wash with water,
dry, ignite, with aid of nitric acid, to unchangable cupric
oxide, cool and weigh. CuOx 1.304 => tannic acid.
[After FLECK, modified by SACKUR and WOLF], b, A
volumetric solution of 4.523 grammes of (German officinal)
* GRIESSM.
Soc., 1873, 95.
69 EXAMINATION OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.
sulphate of cinchonia^ with 0.5 grammes of sulphuric
acid and about 0.1 gramme rosanilin acetate, with water
to 1 litre. This solution is added to the solution of tannic
acid to be determined, until the liquid (clear of precipi-
tate) begins to become red (the anilin being previously all
held in the precipitate). Each c. c. of cinchonia solution
required, indicates 0.01 gramme of tannic acid. [E. WAG-
NEE.]
88. Carbonic Acid Gas is determined in Beer (42) as
follows. The beer (well preserved in close bottles) is
cooled, by immersion of the bottle in ice-water, as low as
5 C., and then poured gently into a flask. The latter
has been connected with a connected pair of Woulf's bot-
tles, so as to conduct the gas from the flask through a so-
lution of ammoniacal chloride of barium in each bottle.
The solution is made from 2 parts chloride of barium, 3
parts solution of ammonia, 45 parts water, filtered clear
before using. The connection being made, the flask is
gently warmed and the moderate flow of gas continued,
by increased heat, at last to boiling. The precipitated
carbonate of barium is then gathered, washed, dried and
weighed. (BaCO 3 : CO 2 :: 1 : 0.2234). The results vary
a little from changes in gathering the precipitate, but
vary more from differences in boiling the beer.,
89. Free Sulphuric Acid (25, 31) is an indication of sig-
nificance very different from that of sulphates. It is
more likely to occur in Wines than in beer or spirits, and
in wines the constant presence of traces of sulphate and
the frequent presence of more than traces (viz., all the
calcic sulphate the dilute alcohol can hold in solution),
together with the presence of a large amount of solids,
render the determination of free sulphuric acid somewhat
DETERMINATION OF EXTRACT. 69
difficult. The carbonizing power of the acid furnishes
the most ready means of its identification.
Wet a strip of white glazed paper in the wine, immer-
sing it several times after short intervals, and dry it in
the water oven at 100 C. A brown to red color, or pos-
itive carbonization, indicates free sulphuric acid in quan-
tity over 0.2 per cent, of the liquid. Also [RUXGE] a bit
of white sugar, with a few drops of the wine, is evapo-
rated on a porcelain plate at 100 C. The color will not
be dark brown or black (greenish-black) unless sulphuric
acid is present. The tests being applied to the wine with
negative result, a small portion of it may be evaporated
on the water-bath to one-half and then to one-fourth
with repetitions of the tests.
Another method is to evaporate 200 c. c. of the wine
to dry ness, ignite to \vhiteness, and determine the sul-
phuric acid in the ash by ordinary gravimetric analysis,
(as required in 113). Then take another 200 c. c. of the
same wine, saturate with pure carbonate of potassium,
evaporate, ignite, and again determine the sulphuric acid,
The excess of the second determination shows the amount
of free sulphuric acid in the wine (the sulphuric acid of
ethereal sulphates, if any, see 80, being subtracted).
90. The Total Non-volatile Constituents." The extract"
of Wines and Beer includes, beside the natural fixed sub-
stances of wine (24b) and beer (42), the larger number of
the various fraudulent additions (wine, 25 to 38) (beer,
44 to 48).
Twenty-five grammes of Wine or beer are evaporated
in a tared porcelain capsule or evaporating dish on a
water-bath until the weight is constant. The dish should
be cooled in a desiccator, for weighing, as the residue is
70 EXAMINATION OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.
very hygroscopic, especially that of beer. One or two
days 1 time is required for the evaporation ; and for the
examination of contents, ash, etc., it is well to evaporate
three portions simultaneously. It has been recommended
to quicken the evaporation of wine by using a glycerine-
bath, glycerine itself being the most volatile material to
be retained in the residue.
91. In the case of all Distilled spirits, except liqueurs
(22), the finding of a residue is often the most easily ob-
tained and convincing evidence of adulteration. Twenty-
live grammes of genuine spirit yield scarcely a weighable
residue ; no other than has been derived from the wood
of the cask.
92. The residue of evaporation of Wine and Beer, at
100 C., consists of substances solid at ordinary tempera-
ture, except glycerine and lactic acid. Sugar is usually
the most abundant of these substances.
93. The Sugar of the residue of Wine and Beer is most
conveniently determined by & volumetric solution of cop-
per (a), after removing all substances insoluble in alcohol
(albumen, gelatine) c, and in the case of astringent wines
removing the tannic acid (d) (the quantity of which is so
small in most white wines that its reduction of the cop-
per solution though prompt is too slight to cause a material
error).
a. The volumetric solution of copper is made as
follows :
34.65 grm. pure cryst. cupric sulphate, dissolved in
about 200 c. c. water.
150. grm. neutral potassium tartrate, dissolved in
about 500 c. c. of a 10 per cent, soda solution
(g. g. 1.14).
DETERMINATION .>F STGAU. . L
\Vater to make the mixture measure IOIMJ c. <.
1 c. c. is reduced by 0.005 grin, grape suirar /
10 c. c. 0.05 .-& " M f *
If the solution deposits cuprous oxide on boiling,, or has
produced any deposit, it is unfit for use. The inclusion
of about 100 c. c. of pure glycerine in the litre renders
the solution much more permanent.
b. The determination is made as follows: Reduce the
sugar solution if necessary with a known proportion of
water so that it is not over per cent, sugar. Take
10 c. c. of the blue solution in a porcelain evaporating
dish ; dilute with 40 to 50 c. c. water, and heat to boiling.
Add slowly from the burette (while the boiling is main-
tained) the (reduced) sugar solution, till the blue color is
all destroyed (and a filtered portion of the solution, acidu-
lated with acetic acid, gives no reaction for copper with
dilute solution of potassic ferrocyanide). The amount of
saccharine solution added contains 0.05 gramme of sugar.
c. AVine which is but little astringent and colored,
and Beer, may be prepared for determination of sugar as
follows : Take 50 c, c. (or if le^s than 0.1 per cent, of
sugar [24:, 42], 100 c. c.) of the wine or beer, mix with 14-
times its volume of 90 per cent, olrnhol, filter, evaporate
the filtrate to consistence of syrup, dissolve in water and
dilute to the bulk of the wine or beer or two, or three,
or five times this bulk as needful to make the liquid not-
over i or at the most 1 per cent sugar. A second deter-
mination may be required, in order to secure a suitable
degree of dilution.
d. To remove tannic acid and color, as necessarv in
* (C 6 H, c O e 180) takes <2iO = 40) thereby reducing (3CuSO
[H,0] 5 = 1247). Then 1247 : 180 : : 34.03 : 5
IZ EXAMINATION OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR?.
case of astringent wines, precipitate the 50 c. c. with solu-
tion of acetate of lead, then dilute with alcohol, filter and
wash, remove the excess of lead by addition of sodium
carbonate solution in least excess, filter and wash, eva-
porate to a syrup, and make up with water as in c.
94, Examination for Sugar in Distilled Spirits (21) is
suggested when a fixed residue is found, according to 91.
The sugar may have been added as a part of caramel (20)
the examination for which is explained in 99. If added
as sugar it will probably be found mostly as cane sugar,
though transformation to grape sugar will occur to some
extent during evaporation on the water-bath after the
alcohol is removed. Liqueurs (22) contain sugar, of
course.
In the qualitative test for sugar, the copper solution
(93a) may be used, or a drop or two of copper sulphate
solution followed by excess of potassa or soda solution.
If the yellow to red-brown cuprous oxide does not appear
on heating to the boiling point, continue the boiling for
about five minutes : a reduction taking place after con-
tinued boiling indicates cane sugar. In this case, add to
a new portion of the liquid to be tested one or two per
cent, of hydrochloric acid and boil for ten or fifteen min-
utes, to transform sucrose to glucose, then neutralize and
test again : an immediate reduction of copper indicating
cane sugar in the material taken. Xow, before deciding
upon the significance of a positive result of this test for
sugar, it must be questioned whether tannic acid is pres-
ent, and if present it must be removed as directed in
93d, and the test applied in its absence. (See 86. The
presence of tannic acid may be ascertained by the test
with ferric solution).
FOK CAM: BCGAB, GI.YCKUINK, CAUAMKL. io
The quantitative test for cane sugar is made by treating
a measured quantity of material as directed next above :
then proceeding as in 93b.
95. Sugar may be estimated by fermentation and deter-
mination of the alcohol, 59 parts of anhydrous alcohol
correspond to 100 parts glucose.
96. If cane sugar is found in Wine or Beer, it must
have been added after fermentation as sucrose is all
changed to glucose by the time any considerable portion
of the sujjar is fermented to alcohol. The addition of
sugar to Must (25) is not ascertained by analysis ; unless
it has been so excessive as to be inferential from the low
proportion of grape acids and extract compared with the
alcohol. More easily is the addition of sugar to Malt-wort
(-44) inferred from undue proportion of alcohol to non-
saccharine solids. As to cane sugar in "wine," see 34.
The existence of cane sujjar in Wine is due, in the
O
majority of cases, to the fact that the "Wine '' is a recent
make-up which has not experienced fermentation at all
that process having been pre-natal to its parent distilled
spirit.
97. The Glycerine of Wine or Beer is separated nearly
pure as follows: A weighed portion of the extract is
slightly moistened with water, mixed with an excess of
sodium bi-carbonate, thoroughly dried and triturated, and
extracted with a mixture of equal weights of anhydrous
alcohol and chloroform. The solution is evaporated on a
water-bath and weighed : 0.95 of its weight being taken
as glycerine.
98. Caramel is an adulteration so common in Brandy
(20) as almost to have gained the authority of common
consent, frequent in Whiskey (16) and other distilled
4
<db EXAMINATION OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.
spirits, and in Wine (35), and as derived from dark malt
a natural constituent of Beer (42), to .which, however, it
is sometimes added.
Caramel is a variable product, obtained by heating
crytallized cane-sugar, or the dark-colored uncrystallizable
syrup from cane sugar, or starch sugar, to 210-220 0.
with addition of some potassium carbonate or sodium car-
bonate. It consists of three related compounds, separable
by different degrees of solubility in alcohol and dilute al-
cohol. As a whole, the caramel of commerce is soluble
in a moderate proportion of water; very little soluble in
absolute alcohol, and sparingly soluble in dilute alcohol-
certain kinds being soluble in spirit of the strength of
wine, but not wholly soluble in proof spirit. Ether dis-
solves little or nothing from caramel. It is divided by
dialysis.
99, All the constituents of caramel reduce the hot al-
kaline solution of copper, and reduce silver from its oxide.
Caramel reduces iodine in presence of 'Water to hydriodic
acid. Solution of acetate of lead precipitates caramel,
removing some kinds in part, others wholly. It is, also
in part, precipitated by baryta solution.
Caramel is generally odorless, but it may have sugar
in such a condition that when warmed with alcohol it
exhales the odor of " burned sugar." It generally has a
strong " burned sugar " bitter taste, due to that consti-
tuent soluble in 84 per cent, alcohol.
In examination for caramel, the residue of the Dis-
tilled Spirit or Wine is extracted with 85 per cent, alcohol
and the concentrated solution filtered if necessary is
observed as to the taste and (while warm) the odor of
caramel.
COLOR-SUBSTANCES. 75
In examination of Distilled Spirits, the same solu-
tion (obtained from the residue by 85 per cent, alcohol)
is evaporated to remove all alcohol, dissolved in enough
water, and farther tested with alkaline copper solution
(see 94) for the reducing power of caramel, as stated
above. If cuprous oxide is reduced, it must be ascertained
whether tannic acid is present by a drop of the solution
with a drop of ferric chloride solution (S6) but if pre-
sent, tannic acid cannot be removed by acetate of lead
solution as directed for sugar in 93d, because of the pre-
cipitation of caramel by that re-agent. Tannic acid may
be separated from caramel, in solution, by digesting at a
gentle heat with freshly ignited cupric oxide, setting
aside the solution for 12 hours and filtering. The filtrate
will be free from tannic acid.
' 100. The coloring substances which are natural consti-
tuents of alcoholic liquors are in Distilled Spirits and
Fermented Liquors, oak-wood color (14) ; in Wine, grape-
pigment (24) ; in Beer, caramel (40).
The coloring substances which are used as additions
to alcoholic liquors are indefinitely numerous, as we have
seen. (Whiskey 16, Brandy 20 and 21, Wine 25 and 35,
Beer 40).
In consequence of the great number of these foreign
coloring materials, and the chemically indifferent charac-
ter of most of both the natural and foreign color sub-
stances, as well as because of their small proportional
quantity, their chemical determination is generally diffi-
cult and sometimes impracticable. At the same time
much attention has been bestowed upon the detection of
solors especially in wine.
101. The red color substance of Wines, cenocyn, is dc-
76 EXAMINATION OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR?.
scribed in 24. Farther : (a) after neutralizing with car-
bonate of sodium, it is precipitated with solution of sub-
acetate of lead. The washed precipitate is treated with
hydrosulphuric acid gas, then washed with hot water,
when the oenocyn is dissolved out with dilute acetic acid.
On evaporating this (red) solution, the color is obtained
in residue.
b. In dialysis, the color of genuine red wine passes
through the membrane, making a red diffusate : while
logwood and brazil-wood colors are but slightly dialytic
and leave the diffusate colorless to pale yellow. (ROMEI
and SESTINI).
c. A strip of blotting paper wet with solution of ace-
tate of copper ) dipped in the wine (or spirit) and dried,
shows a rose-gray from the genuine color of red wine, a
violet-blue from the color of logwood.
d. Artificially colored wines are decolorized " in five
minutes" by heating 50 c. c. of the wine with 6 c. c. of
nitric acid of specific gravity 1.41, at 90 to 95 C. (194
to 203 F.). (FANTAGGINI and COTTINI).
The decoloration is much delayed when the operation
is performed in close vessels ; also when alcohol, tartaric
acid, or tannic acid, have been added. (SESTINI).
Certain artificially colored wines are found not to be
decolored with this re-agent. (STEIN).
It is farther reported that certain pure wines are de-
colored by the nitric acid in half an hour. Also, that the
test is practically worthless.
e. A piece of clean bleached sponge does not fix and
retain the color of genuine red wine, after being wet with
it, a distinction from foreign colors. (BCETTGEE).
f. Pour 50 c. c. wine upon about 50 grammes of bin-
oxide of 'manganese , agitate repeatedly, and after a short
COLOR-SUBSTAXCES.
77
time filter. If the filtrate is clear and colorless, the color
was that of genuine red wine ; if dark colored, the pre-
sence of foreign color substance is indicated. (FACEN).
g. The following reactions are given by ORFILA The
re-agents in solution being added to the Wine under
examination :
Alm.
Stannous
nitrate.
Stann ic
chloride.
Bordeaux
dark bronze-
blackish-
dark blue.
Burgundy
color,
do.
blue,
do.
dark creen-
gray.
Wiiie with Bilberries. . . .
dark olive-
gray.
green.
(Vctccinium myrtittus.)
green.
Wine with Elderberries.
clear olive-
gray-green.
bottle-green.
(Sambucus Ebulus, or
"Danewort.")
green.
Wine with Logwood
dark color
violet.
dark brown.
and precip.
Wine with Brazil-wood.
violet-red.
do.
dark brown-
Wine with Litmus . . .
blue red.
clear blue.
red.
dark brown.
h. According to CHEVALIER, the addition of -potassa
in slight excess in wines gives the following indications:
Genuine red wine color changes to bottle-green, then
brownish-green to brownish-gray.
Wine with Elderberries purple.
" with Logwood reddish-purple.
" with Mulberries violet.
" with Brazil-wood red.
78 EXAMINATION OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUOKS.
i. The method of JACOB consists in adding to half a
drachm of wine an equal quantity of a 10 per cent, solu-
tion of sulphate of alumina, then adding ten or h'f teen
drops of an 8 per cent, solution of carbonate of ammonium
(or carbonate of potassium YAN ESENBECK).
Genuine red wine the precipitate is dull gray with
more or less reddish tinge.
Wine with Elderberries violet precipitate.
(Sambucus Niger and S. Ebulus).
" with Brazil-wood grayish-violet precipitate.
" with Logwood rose-colored "
" with Privet berries brownish-violet "
(Ligustrum Vulgar e).
j. When gelatine solution is added to wine, and pre-
cipitated by the tannic acid thereof (a little tannic acid
being added if necessary), the oenocyn of red wine is
carried down in the precipitate, leaving the wine nearly
colorless. But the color of elderberries (Sambucus nigra
and S. Ebulus), and many other artificial colors, are left
in solution, in this test. (M. FAURE).
k. Color substances in Distilled Spirits are in many
cases revealed by the odor of the residue, when warm.
Logwood and Elderberries (Sambucus Canadensis) are
among those colors most readily detected in this way.
1. If a Distilled Spirit has decided color while giving
little or no reaction for tannic acid (with ferric solution),
it is pretty good evidence that the color has not been de-
rived from the cask.
m. SHUTTLEWORTH recommends the following as a
method of examination of wine for anilin color. (35,
note). To a portion of the suspected wine, in a test-tube,
add an equal volume of fusel-oil, agitate well and allow
the mixture to separate, when, if magenta be present.
AKOMATICS. TO
the supernatant layer will be more or less tinctured of a
characteristic pink or pnrple color. Genuine port wine,
when so treated, does not impart any of its color to fusel-
oil. Ether may be substituted for fusel-oil, but it does
not answer nearly so well.
n. As stated in 24, the color of genuine red wine
gives no absorption band in the spectrum, but only a gen-
eral absorption increasing toward the violet. The color-
ing matter of the flowers of the purple holyoaks (Althce-a
rosa^Malvaarborea, Rosetremiere), much used in Greece
to color wines, and the colors of logwood, and Brazil-wood,
all give a distinct and wide absorption band in the neigh-
borhood of D. The wine is examined in a thin tube, is
diluted if necessary, and a very little alum is added. (T.
S. PHIPSOX: Chein. Xews, xx. [1869] p. 220).
101K. The aromatics added to Distilled Liquors and to
Wines (20, 21 and 36), are often easily recognized in the
residue by taste and odor. In case of Wines, especially
if rich in sugar and grape extractives, it is advisable to
extract the residue with ether, or with a mixture of equal
parts of alcohol and chloroform, or chloroform alone
(according to the solubilities of the aromatics).
Extraction with these and other solvents also often
serves to separate aromatics from the residue of Distilled
Spirits.
102. The examination of the residue of any alcoholic
liquor for alkaloids should usually be preceded by a care-
ful separation from extractive and saccharine matter, as
always in toxicological analysis. For Stas and Otto's
process, see Alkaloids, in Fresenius' Qualitative Analysis
Watts' Dictionary of Chemistry, L, 125-7, Supplement'
85; Miller's Chemistry, III., 491 ; Wormley's Micro-
80 EXAMINATION OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUOKS.
chemistry of Poisons, 411 ; Bloxanvs Chemistry, Sec. 421.
The reactions of the alkaloids will be found in the fore-
going and other standard works and in the U. S. Dispen-
satory ; also in Prescott's Proximate Organic Analysis.
Bitter Substances and aromatics will also be separated,
in many instances, along with, or in place of alkaloids,
according to their solubility in alcohol, ether, and other
solvents used. If alkaloids are not the objects of the
search, the process of examination should be modified, as
the solubilities of materials to be separated require.
103. The examination for foreign bitters in Beer (46, 47,
48), may be conducted as follows : *
It should be borne in mind that hop bitter is soluble
in ether, and will be removed by washing the syrupy res-
idues of beer with ether, while salicin, quassiri, cnicin,
menyanthin, are not soluble in ether.
Extract the beer residue with (aqueous) alcohol (solu-
tion A), and precipitate this solution with /basic acetate of
lead (precipitate B, Hop Bitter and resin, ^ 43) filter and
reserve the filtrate.
Decompose precipitate B, in water, with liydrosulpliu-
ric acid gas and filter (resin being left in residue) ; eva-
porate the filtrate to dryness and dissolve the residue in
chloroform add water to the clear chloroform solution,
and warm to evaporate the chloroform; filter from the
water the precipitate of the remaining resin, and evapo-
rate the filtrate on the water-bath to a dry residue (the
hop bitter). This tastes bitter, dissolves in water with
acid reaction, and is soluble in alcohol, ether, chloroform,
and benzole. Its aqueous-alcoholic solution is precipi-
tated (as above) by basic acetate of lead, but not by tannic
* LEVIN ENDERS : Hager's Untersuchungen, U.,325.
FOREIGN lilTTEKS IX liKKK. 81
acid ; and it does not form a mirror with aiuinoniacal
nitrate of silver.
The filtrate reserved from precipitate B (after basic
acetate of lead) is now cleared of excess of lead by treat-
ment with hydrosulphuric acid and filtration, freed from
alcohol by evaporation, and then precipitated with tannic
acid (precipitate C : various bitters, as quassin, absinth in,
menyanthin. Also alkaloids, if present).
Precipitate C is digested with excess of carbonate of
/</'"7, the mixture dried, and extracted with alcohol (solu-
tion of bitter substances free from tannic acid); the alco-
holic solution is evaporated to dry ness and the residue
(D) triturated with ether. The (clear) ether solution (E)
is evaporated to dry ness (residue contains ab sin thin also
alkaloids soluble in ether).
Absinthin (therefore) is not precipitated by snbacetate
of lead, but is precipitated by tannic acid and is soluble
in alcohol, in much water, and in ether. A portion of
the dry residue, mixed with a drop or two of concentrated
sulphuric acid and after a few moments diluted with a
little water, colors blue-violet.- Its water solution, boiled
with ammoniacal "nitrate of silver solution, form a mir-
ror ; but does not reduce alkaline copper solution. (22, 46).
That part of residue D not dissolved by ether as E is
now dissolved up by warm water with alcohol. This
solution (from D) contains menyanthin, quassin, cnicin.
(Possibly Picro toxin ; see 104).
Menyanthin (from the buckbean, 46) is an amorphous,
yellow semi-solid, of neutral reaction, bitter taste, spar-
ingly soluble in cold water, freely soluble in hot water
and in alcohol, not soluble in ether or chloroform. The
hot saturated water solution becomes milky on cooling.
82 EXAMINATION OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.
In concentrated sulphuric acid, it dissolves at first with
a yellow-brown color, afterward turning violet ; the water
dilution of the mixture causing the separation of gray
flocks. It reduces ammoniacal solution of silver nitrate.
Quassin (from quassia, 4G) forms colorless columnar
crystals, soluble in 200 parts water at ordinary tempera-
tures, easily soluble in alcohol, very sparingly in ether.
It dissolves colorless in cold concentrated sulphuric acid,
and the addition of water to this mixture causes separa-
tion of quassin nearly unchanged.
Cnicin (from " blessed thistle," 46), crystallizes in
silk-lustrous colorless needles; nearly insoluble in cold
water, easily soluble in alcohol, but slightly soluble in
ether. It is colored red by concentrated sulphuric acid,
and this color is changed to violet on the subsequent ad-
dition of water, or to yellow by addition of ammonia.
Concentrated hydrochloric acid dissolves it with a green
color.
104. Picrotoxin, the active principle of the cocculus in-
dicus (47), crystallizes from pure solutions in stellate
groups of needles, from colored and impure solutions in
interlaced spongy threads. It is inodorous, intensely bit-
ter, neutral in reaction, and non-volatile. It dissolves in
about 200- parts of cold or 50 parts of hot water, in 3 or
4 parts of hot alcohol, in 250 parts of ether, and freely
in chloroform, bisulphide of carbon, petroleum naphtha,
and in amylic alcohol. Concentrated sulphuric acid dis-
solves it saffron-colored, with slow decomposition on heat-
ing. If a trace of bichromate of potassium be added to
the cold sulphuric acid solution, a violet to brown color
appears : the brown color caused by adding more of the
FOREIGN BITTEK3 IX liEER. 83
bichromate. It readily reduces alkaline copper sulphate
solution.
It is removed, from acid as well as from alkaline solu-
tions, by much ether, by chloroform, benzole, and amylic
alcohol. Hence it is likely to be in part, or wholly re-
moved in extracting for aromatics according to 101, or in
cleansing the acid solution with ether in Otto's Stas' pro-
cess for alkaloids. Animal charcoal takes it up to some
extent, but does not hold it long against solvents.
For the extraction of picrotoxin from Beer, many
methods have been given.
a. That of SCHMIDT (J. pr. Chem.lxxxvii., 344 ; Watts'
Dictionary, iv., 644) is as follows : The liquid suspected
to contain picrotoxin is concentrated over a water-bath to
a syrup, diluted with water to a mobile liquid ; the solu-
tion agitated with (5 or 6 grammes of) animal charcoal,
after several hours filtered, and the filtrate completely
precipitated with basic acetate of lead and filtered. The
(wine-yellow) filtrate is then treated with ^- - to T V of
amylic alcohol, shaking repeatedly, and after 24: hours the
oily layer is decanted. The small remaining portion of
picrotoxin may be extracted from the water liquid by re-
peating the treatment with amylic alcohol. The extract
is left to evaporate in a warm place ; the residue is boiled
with water acidulated with sulphuric acid ; the acid liquid
is decolorized by filtration through purified animal char-
coal, and evaporated till it is distinctly bitter. It is then
repeatedly extracted with ether; and the ether-solution,
with addition of a little alcohol, evaporated. By repeat-
edly dissolving the residue in weak alcohol and evapora-
ting, the picrotoxin may be obtained in tufts of fine silky
84 EXAMINATION OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.
crystals. According to Schmidt, it crystallizes far bet-
ter from alcohol than from ether or amylic alcohol.
b. BLAS (Chem. Centr., 1872, 441 and 442 ; Jour. Chem.
Soc,, 1873, 94) gives the following (shorter) method.
Four to six litres of beer are evaporated to one or two
litres, treated with carbonate of sodium in slight excess,
and when cold agitated with its -f ff volume of ether to
remove hop bitter and other bitter substances. [Bias
states that ether does not remove picrotoxin from alkaline
solutions: a statement which Hager declares to be an
error]. After removing the ether layer, the liquid is
acidified and again and repeatedly washed with ether.
The united ether washings are evaporated ; and the (bit-
ter) residue is dissolved in alcohol acidulated with a drop
of acetic acid. The (filtered) solution is evaporated on
watch-glasses, and if necessary recrystallized until distinct
crystals are obtained. The needle-tufts of picrotoxin are
fan-shaped or sheaf-like aggregations.
c. KOIILER gives a process wherein the beer is precip-
itated by acetate of lead after adding ammonia, the lead
removed from the filtrate by hydrosulphuric acid, the fil-
trate thereof concentrated to a syrup, acidulated with
acetic acid and extracted with ether. The residue from
the ethereal extract is recrystallized from alcohol, as
necessary.
From the chemically indifferent character of picrotoxin,
a physiological test is a valuable means of confirmation.
BLAS recommends its administration to fishes for this pur-
pose (Chein. Centr., 1872, 441 and 442 ; Jour. Chem. Soc.
1873, 94). Place, in 2 litres of water, two fishes of about
200 grammes weight, and add a portion of the purified
solution or crystals to be tested. If picrotoxin is present,
FOREIGN BITTERS IX P-F.KR. 85
the fish soon turn on their backs and die. 2 grammes of
cocculus indicus, corresponding to 0.1 gramme picrotoxin,
is enough to kill a fish of 200 to 300 grammes weight in
10 hours. At least 6 litres of beer should be worked for
the physiological test. Lnpuliue and hop extract do not
poison fish.
105. Hop bitter (43) may be separated from Beer (as in-
dicated in 103) by concentrating and washing with ether.
It is also precipitated by solution of basic acetate of lead,
better after extracting with alcohol, as in obtaining pre-
cipitate B, Enders' process, 103.
If beer is evaporated on a water-bath to one-third
volume, and when warm supersaturated with common
salt, the characteristic odor of the hop (also the odor of
some of its substitutes) becomes unmistakable.
Concerning the hop oil, see TO.
106. For the extraction of aloes from Beer (46), the dry
residue (of about 200 c. c.) is treated with warm dilute
alkali (ammoniacal water), filtered, and the filtrate when
cold is saturated with hydrochloric acid. The precipitate
is gathered (the resin of aloes). This is recognized by
its characteristic odor; and by its solubilities and reac-
tions, as follows : Aloes-resin is insoluble in cold water,
in ether, chloroform, benzole, petroleum naphtha, bi-sul-
phide of carbon : is soluble in alcohol, aqueous alkalies,
and hot glycerine, also in a not too dilute water solution
of aloes extractives.
The hot water solution of aloes (or the filtrate from
the resin, as above) gives a (yellowish-gray) curdy precip-
itate with acetate of lead solution. If the filtrate from
this precipitate is freed from lead by addition of much
excess of dilute sulphuric acid and filtration, then boiled
86 EXAMINATION OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR?.
for an hour with dilute sulphuric acid, and, when cold,
extracted with ether, crude paracumaric acid is obtained.
The ether residue is purified once or twice by solution in
hot w r ater and evaporation to crystallize. The alcoholic so-
lution of the crystals, with very dilute ferric chloride, strikes
a dark gold-brown color. Also, the same reaction may be
obtained from the more impure paracumaric acid formed
when the water solution of aloes extractives is boiled for
an hour with very dilute sulphuric acid.
107. If examination is to be made for strychnia in beer
(48), it may be done (after HOFFMANN and GBAHAM) as
follows : The beer is filtered through enough animal char-
coal to decolorize it ; the animal charcoal is washed once
or twice with a little water, then taken from the filter
and boiled with alcohol and filtered hot, this being re-
peated with another portion of alcohol. The alcoholic
filtrates are evaporated to dryness, the residue treated
with solution of potassa and ether. The residue from
the ether extract is tested for strychnia reactions.
108. The Ash of alcoholic liquors is obtained, in the
usual way, by ignition of the residue. 100 c. c, to 500 c.
c. of Wine or Beer should be taken. The addition to the
residue of a few drops of strongest nitric acid repeated
from time to time, after cooling greatly facilitates the
combustion to a white ash. If chlorides are to be deter-
mined, the residue should be only carbonized, by a gen-
tle ignition, and the coal extracted with hot water.
109. The amount of ash in Wine is given in 24; in
Beer, in 42. The additions increasing the ash of Wine :
gypsum, alum, sodium as sulphite, calcium as carbonate,
potassium as tartrate, (25), heavy metals (37). The addi-
tions increasing the ash of Beer ; common salt and sodium
MAGNESIUM AND CALCIL'M IN ASH. 87
carbonate, (45) ; alum, ferrous sulphate, sodium carbonate
(46) ; heavy metals, as lead, zinc, tin, by accidental solu-
tion by acid (as mentioned for wine in 37).
The additions causing an ash to be obtained from dis-
tilled spirits : potassa or soda (17) ; copper in absinthe
(22) ; lead as acetate (38).
Arsenic as mentioned in 38.
110. The preponderance of magnesium over calcium in
grape Wines, and the preponderance of calcium over mag-
nesium in Cider and "fruit wines," have been taken as a
means of detecting mixture and substitution (32). But
before conclusions are decided upon these grounds, the
possibility of calcium having been added to grape wine,,
as sulphate or carbonate (25), must be considered.
On adding to 9 parts of Wine, 1 part of ammonia,
after a few hours, " fruit wine " gives well formed micro-
scopic tabular crystals of calcic phosphate, adherent to the
sides of the vessel. They are soluble in acetic acid, and
precipitated by oxalate of ammonium. The filtrate from
this oxalate is not precipitated by ammonia. On the other
hand, with grape wine, a white powdery precipitate (of
ammonio-magnesic phosphate) falls to the bottom. Under
the microscope, the crystals are seen to be star-shaped.
The crystals, dissolved in acetic acid, give a very slight
precipitate with oxalate of ammonium, and when this is
filtered out, the filtrate is precipitated by ammonia.*
Fruit wine yields between 0.11 and 0.40 per cent, of
carbonate of lime in the ash ; grape wine never above
0.049 per cent. [TUCHSMIDT].
111. Aluminum, iron, and manganese exist in very mi-
nute proportions in the grape. The presence of aluminum,
* Chem. Centr., 1872, 153.
88 EXAMINATION OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.
with sulphates, in Distilled Spirits or in more than traces
in Wine and Beer, indicates adulteration with aluin, Ac-
cording to Hager, even 0.01 per cent of aluminum (with
0.05 per cent, of sulphuric acid) in wine authorizes the
suspicion of the addition of alum.
The residue of 100 c. c. of wine is ignited and the ash
digested several hours with an excess of potassa in dilute
solution ; the filtrate therefrom being then treated with
excess of chloride of ammonium. The precipitate is
aluminum hydrate with traces of aluminum phosphate.
112. In like manner, the presence in the ash of notable
proportions of iron with sulphuric acid indicates adul-
teration with sulphate of iron, more likely to occur in
Beer (46).
113. The sulphuric acid of the ash must be determined
and considered in deciding as to additions of gypsum, or
alum, or green vitriol, or sulphites, or the still more se-
rious addition of free sulphuric acid. The solution of
the ash in dilute hydrochloric acid is used in the ordinary
gravimetric determination. Considerations as to the
sources and significance of sulphates and sulphuric acid in
Wines are made in 31, and elsewhere as there referred to.
As to free sulphuric acid, see for examination, 89.
114. The examination of Wine or Beer for arsenic,
lead, or other metal, should be commenced by the remo-
val of organic matter, according to usual processes for
examination in cases of suspected poisoning. See Fre-
senius' Qualitative Analysis, sec. 225 ; Wormley's Micro-
chemistry of Poisons ; Taylor on Poisons ; etc.
DKAGENDOKFF recommends the following methods of
examination of beer for foreign bitters.*
* Archiv der Pharmacie [3], Hi., 293, and iv., 5J89. The abstract
DRAGENDORFF'S METHOD. 89
I. 600 to 1000 c. c. (1 to 2 pints) of beer are evaporated
on the water-bath to a syrupy consistence, and then treated
with 3 to 4: volumes of alcohol, as free as possible from
fusel-oil, and the mixture allowed to stand 24 hours.
The whole is. then filtered ; the alcohol is distilled off from
the filtrate, and the residual liquid, after standing 12 to
20 hours in the cold, is filtered again. A few drops of
dilute sulphuric acid are then added, and- the whole is
agitated (1) with petroleum naphtha ; the supernatant
petroleum, layer is washed with water, filtered through a
dry filter to remove the last traces of water, and left to
evaporate to dryness on several watch-glasses. The aque-
ous acid liquor left below the petroleum naphtha is then
in like manner washed (2) with benzole, and afterward (3)
with chloroform, when it is made alkaline by addition of
ammonia and extracted (4) with benzole, and, if salicin is
to be sought, it is lastly extracted (5) with amylic alcohol.
Good beer, not sophisticated, when examined as di-
rected above, gives the following results : The petroleum
naphtha extract (1) contains (a) an amorphous, slightly
bitter substance, soluble in ether and alcohol, and par-
tially soluble in water: (b) a substance which precipitates
basic acetate of lead; (c) a substance which becomes red
with Frohde's reagent ; * and (d) one which becomes red
with sulphuric acid and sugar. The benzole extract (2)
contains the same substances and is more bitter ; in addi-
tion it contains (e) a body which becomes dark brown
when treated with sulphuric acid, and (f) a substance
given above is taken from that of C. R. A. Wright in Journal of the
Chemical Society, 1874, 818.
* Frohde's reagent is prepared by dissolving 0.01 gramme of so-
dium molybdate in 10 cub. cent, of concentrated sulphuric acid.
90 EXAMINATION OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.
which precipitates tannic acid. The chloroform extract
(3) contains substances a, b, e, and f ; also (g) traces of a
body precipitable by potassium iodide and phosphomo-
lybdic acid ; (h) a body which reduces arnmoniacal silver
nitrate ; and (i) a body which crystallizes from ether and
is difficultly soluble in alcohol. Of these substances, b, c,
and f come from the hops ; a from hops and malt together ;
d, e, g, and h. from the malt ; and i is formed from malt
in fermentation.
In examination for foreign bitters which are not pre-
cipitable by basic lead acetate, it is better first to remove
those natural constituents of beer which are precipitated
by this re-agent, as follows :
II. GOO to 1000 c. c. are heated for removal of the
carbonic acid ; when cold, treated with basic lead acetate
to completion of the precipitate ; set aside some hours
and then filtered. The lead is removed from the filtrate
by adding excess of dilute sulphuric acid and filtering.
The last filtrate is nearly or quite neutralized with am-
monia, and evaporated, as quickly as possible, on the
water-bath, to the volume of 180 to 200 c. c. If the fil-
trate has a harsh or bitter taste, the beer is to be suspected.
The concentrated filtrate is now treated with petroleum
naphtha, benzole, and the other solvents used in I., as
directed for that method.
Normal beer, treated as directed in II., should give
little or no extract with petroleum naphtha ; but little
benzole extract and that not bitter and not precipitating
gold chloride, even on warming ; and should give but a
slight chloroform extract.
Of the EXTRACTS FROM THE AdD LlQUOR, (1) tllO
residue from petroleum may contain :
PKA<;KXI>okIT's MKTIlop. 01
Amorphous ; with sulphuric acid, becoming -first brown,
then violet, and then red-violet . . traces of Absinthin.
Amorphous, colorless, sharp-tasting and rubefacient;
with sulphuric acid, brown-red . . . traces of Capsicin.
Amorphous, green ; with sulphuric acid and sugar be-
comes red ; with ammoniacal silver solution gives no
precipitate Juniper-berry resin.
Crystalline, yellow ; with potassium cyanide becomes
blood-red Picric acid.
(2) The residue from benzole may contain :
(A) Crystalline, not bitter ; with potassa becoming
purple-red ; with sulphuric acid, red to orange. Aloetin.
(B) Amorphous.
(A) Gold chloride causes no precipitate in the water
solution of the residue.
(a) Tannic acid gives no precipitate.
Sulphuric acid colors red-brown . . . Capsicin.
Sulphuric acid colors brown . . Daphne bitter.
(b) Tannic acid gives a precipitate. Eesiclue bitter,
(aa) Basic acetate of lead causes a slight turbidity ;
sulphuric acid and sugar hardly redden.
Ferric chloride gives brown-green on warming
the aqueous solution . . . Gentian leaves.
Ferric chloride gives a brown tint on warming ;
excessively bitter Quassin.
(bb) Basic acetate of lead gives a copious precipitate.
Sulphuric acid and sugar quickly give a cherry-
red tint. Slightly bitter Cnicin.
(B) Gold chloride does not precipitate the water
solution of the residue in the cold, but is reduced on
warming.
92 EXAMINATION OF ALCOHOLIC
Tannic acid causes a slight precipitate ; ammo-
niacal silver nitrate not reduced ; dilute sul-
phuric acid with heat gives the odor of erici-
nol (characteristic, disagreeable) ; Frohde's
reagent gives a black-brown, and sulphuric
acid and sugar a beautiful red, color.
Ledum bitter.
Tannic acid precipitates ; ammoniacal silver solu-
tion is reduced ; hot sulphuric acid gives a
slight odor of menyanthol . Trifolium bitter.
(c) Gold chloride precipitates the water solution of
the residue in the cold, but does not reduce it on heating.
Sulphuric acid diluted with an equal weight of
water gives a slight odor of benzoic acid . .
Centaury bitter.
(D) Gold chloride precipitates the water solution in
the cold, and is reduced on warming.
Sulphuric acid dissolves the residue to a brown
tint at first soon turning violet, and becom-
ing a beautiful violet on addition of water ;
hydrochloric acid of specific gravity 1.155,
colors first green, then fine blue . Absinthin.
(3) The residue from chloroform may contain :
(A) Gold chloride giving no precipitate or reduction
(A) Tannic acid giving no precipitate.
Sharp taste; epispastic; sulphuric acid colors
dark brown-red Capsicin.
(B) Tannic acid precipitates.
(a) Basic lead acetate gives a considerable precipi-
tate ; dilute sulphuric acid with heat makes
turbid, then brown-red, and gives a faint odor
of benzoic acid . . . Cnicin.
(b) Basic lead acetate gives little or no precipitate.
Sulphuric acid gives a brown color.
Kesidne very bitter duassin.
Residue bitterish Gentian.
Residue sharp-tasting . . . Daphne bitter.
Sulphuric acid gives a slight yellow tint or no
color at all Colocynth.
(B) Gold chloride gives no precipitate in the cold,
but is reduced on warming.
(A) Tannic acid does not precipitate.
Stupefies fish ; bitter taste . . . Picrotoxin.
Tasteless or slightly bitter ; potassa colors
red-brown Aloes.
(B) Tannic acid precipitates.
Ammoniacal silver nitrate reduced ; sulphuric acid
with heat gives a strong odor of menyanthol.
Menyanthin
Ammoniacal silver not reduced ; dilute sulphuric
acid gives odor of ericinol ; sulphuric acid and
sugar, on standing, a carmine-red ....
Ledum bitter. (ERICOLIX).
(C) Gold chloride precipitates in the cold, and is not
reduced on warming.
O
Nitric acid gives a violet tint . . . Colchicum.
Sulphuric acid, with heat, gives odor of menyan-
thol ; the liquid then turns red, and the odor
alters to one resembling benzoic acid . . .
Centuary bitter.
(D) Gold chloride precipitates in the cold, and reduces
on heating.
Sulphuric acid colors brown to violet. [See (2),
(B), (D)] Wormwood bitter,
94: EXAMINATION OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.
OF THE EXTRACTS OF THE ALKALINE LlQUOK,
(4) The residue from benzole may contain,
(A) Dilating the pupils of a cat's eye,
(a) Platinic chloride does not precipitate the aqueous
solution :
Sulphuric acid, with heat, giv r es a peculiar odor.
Atropia.
(b) Platinic chloride precipitates when in just the
right proportion Hyoscyamia,
(B) Does not dilate the pupils of a cat's eye,
Sulphuric acid solution, with potassium dichro-
mate, becomes blue, soon fading . Strychnia.
Sulphuric acid solution becomes red with nitric
acid . . Brucia.
TABLE OF REFERENCES,
TO SERVE AS
AN OUTLINE OF THE ORDER OF EXAMINATIONS.*
The figures refer to parayraphs.
"Alcohol" of commerce.
Constituents, commercial grades, strength, 12.
Identification of ethylic alcohol, 50.
Examination for Fusel-oil, 57 to 61.
for Acetic acid, 64 to 70.
for Aldehyde, 71.
for Methylic alcohol, 0*3.
(for Ether, 79).
Determination of alcohol, 51 to 56.
Whiykcy.
Constituents, 14, 15, 10.
Adulterations, 16.
Determination of alcohol, 51 to 56.
Examination for Fusel-oil, 59 to 61, (57 and 58).
for Creosote, 77.
for Aromatics, 101 J^-
(for Bitters, 103).
for Color, 98, 99, 100.
(for Astringents, 86, 87).
* In this table it is only attempted to index the more prominent analytical
points, giving references which lead to other suggestion* for analysis in the body
of the work.
96 TABLE OF REFERENCES.
Gin.
Constituents, Adulterations, 17, 14.
Determination of the alcohol, 51 to 56,
Examination for Fusel-oil, 59 to 01.
for Juniper oil, 76.
for Turpentine oil, 70.
for Caustic alkali, 108, 109.
for Volatile oils. 70.
for A romat ics, 1 1 } .,' .
Rum.
Constituents, Adulterations, 18, (14).
Determination of the alcohol, 51 to 50.
Examination for Fusel-oil, 50 to 01, (57 and 58).
for Ethers and oils, 73, 74, 70.
for Acetic acid, 01. 70.
for Color, 08 to 100.
(for Astringents, 80).
Brandy.
Constituents, 19, 20, (14>.
Adulterations, 20, 21.
Determination of the alcohol, 5 1 to 56.
Examination for Fusel-oil, 57 to 01.
for Acetic acid, 04.
for Acetic ether, 70.
for " Pelargonic ether," 75, 76.
for " Oil of Wine." etc., 80.
for Nitrous Ether, 78.
for Volatile oils, 70.
for Aromatics, 101}. 2 X .
for Colors, 08, 00, 100, 101.
for Astringents, 80, 87.
for Sulphuric acid, 80.
for Sugar, 0:3 to 00.
for Solids, 01.
Liqueurs.
Constituents, 22.
Determination of the alcohol 5 1 to 55.
Examination for Fusel-oil, 57 to 01.
for Volatile oils, 70.
for Aromatic^, 101 l >.
TABI.K OF Kl'.KKliKNVKs.
Liqueurs. Continued.
Examination for Sugar, i>:j to 90.
for Anilin, 101m.
for Copper, 114.
for Sulphuric ncid, 89.
Wine*.
Constituents, 24, 25, (4).
Adulterations, .j, 2'}.
Determination of the Alcohol 51 to 56.
of Volatile acids, 04 to 69, (73).
of Total acid, 81.
of Tartarie acid, 83, 82.
of Acid Tartrate 82.
(of Carbonic acid, 88,)
of Total non-volatile substance. 90.
of Sugar, 93 to 90.
of Glycerine, 94.
of Taunic acid, 80, 87.
Examination for Fusel-oil, 57 to 01.
for Compound ethers, 75, 74, 70.
for Volatile oils, 70.
for Aromatics, lOli;.
for Sulphuric acid, 89.
for Colors, 100 and 101, (98 and 99).
for "Fruit wine," 110.
for Oxalic acid, S4.
for Sulphate?, 113.
for Alum, 111.
for Lead, Arsenic, etc., 114.
Beer (Ah, Porter).
Constituents, 39 to 45, i.4,
Adulterations, 44 to 49.
Determination of the alcohol, 51 to 56.
of Acetic acid, 64 to 69.
of Carbonic acid, 88.
of Total non- volatile substance, 90.
of Sugar, 93 to 96.
(of Glycerine, 94).
98 TABLE OF EKFRKKXCKS.
Beer (Ale, Porter). Continued.
Examination of Ash, 108 and 109.
for Hop oil, 76.
for Hop bitter, 105.
for Adventitious bitters, 103, 114.
for Aloes, 106.
for Picrotoxin 104.
for Aromatics. 101*^.
(for Alkaloids. 107.)
(for Butyric acid, 73.)
(for Common salt, 108 and 109).
(for Sulphate of Iron, 108 and 113).
for Alkaline carbonates and Tartaric acid,
83, 108.
(for Lead, etc. ,114).
33 EX.
PAGE
Absinthe 28
Absinthin, in beer 36
Detection of 80
Absinthium : See Wormwood.
Acetate of Amyl, formation of 13
Ethyl : See Acetic Erher.
Acetic acid, formation of 12
relations and boiling point 15
in Beer 34
increased in Diseased Wine 27
Identification of , 54
Distillation of 55
Volumetric Determination of 54
Gavimetric Determination of 55
Acetic Ether, formation of 13
in Brandy 22
in Wine 81
Extraction and Identification of 55
Acidimetry of Acetic Acid 54
of Wines 63
Acid, added to Grape Wine 29
Acids, Table of Fatty. 15
List of, to be considered in Analysis 53
Determination of Total 63
Albumen, in Must and Wine 24
in Beer 34
Alcohol, properties and composition of 9
properties of mixtures of 10
sources of 10
grades of Commercial 16
fortius 16
100 INDEX.
PAGE
Alcohol, in Distilled Liquors / 17
in Wine 24
in Beer 84
Identification of 89
Determination of 41
Separation of 41
Table of Percentage of 45
Outline of the Order of Examination of 95
Alcohols, formed in Fermentation 11
Table of Ethylic Series of 15
Alcoholic Fermentation 10
for Beer 31
Aldehyde, formation of 12
Separation and Identification of 56
Ale, composition of 34
See Beer.
Alkaline carbonates, in Beer 35
Alkaloids, Examination for 79
Allspice, in Brandy 23
Aloes in Beer 35
Examination for 85
Alum in Wine 20,30
in Beer 35
Determined in the Ash 87
Amylic Alcohol, formation of 11
relations and boiling point of 15
Properties of 48
Anilin colors in Liqueurs 23
in Wines . . 30
Detection of 79
Argol, how formed 24
Aroma tics, in Gin 19
in Brandy 23
in Wines 31
in Beer 35
Examination for 79
Arsenic in Wine 31
Artificial formation of alcohol 10
production of Wines 28
of Brandv. , 21
INDEX.
Ash of Wi ue ................................................ 24
of Beer ................................................. 34
of Liquors ............................................. 86
Directions for obtaining .................................. 86
Barley, Composition of ...................................... 34
Beer, manufacture ...... . ................................... 31
Fermentation of ...................................... 32
Composition of ........................................ 34
Adulterations of ..................................... . . 35
Poisonsin ................................... 35, 36, 82, 86
Extract ........................................... 69, 70
Examination for Bitters in ............................. 80
Outline of Examination of ............................ 97
Bilberries in Wine .......................................... 30
Bitters added to Beer ........................................ 35
Examination for ...................................... 80
Brandy, veritable, artificial, and fictitious ..................... 21
recipes for imitation of ...................... , ...... 23
essences of .......................................... 23
Outline of Examination of .......................... 9(>
Butylic Alcohol .......................................... 11, 15
Butyric Acid ............................................ 12, 15
Butyric Ether, formation of .................................. 13
in Rum ....................................... 22
in Wine ...................................... 31
Separation and Identification of ............... 58
Cane Sugar in made-up Wines .............................. 30
added to Malt-wort ...... , ................. ; ____ 35
changed in Fermentation ....................... 11
non-permanence in Wine or Beer ................ 72
Determination of ............................... 70
Caproic acid, formed ......................................... 12
relations and boiling point of .................... 15
Caproic alcohol ............................................. 15
Caprylic acid, formed ........................................ 12
relations and boiling point of .................... 15
Caprylic alcohol ............................................. 15
Capsicum, in Brandy ........................................ 23
Examination for. . 79
102
INDEX.
I'AUE
Caramel in Brandy 22
in Wine * 23, 24
in Beer 34, 5J5
Characteristics of 73
Examination for 74
Cassia ; See Aromatics 10
Carbonic Acid, in Beer 34
Determined 08
Cider, in Wines 20
Cinnamon : See Aromatics 10
Cloves : See Aromatics 10
Cnicin, in Beer 80
Cocculus Indicus, in Beer 35
Examination for 83
Colcliicum seed in Beer 35
Color substances in Distilled Liquors 10
in Brandy 23
of Wine 24
added to Wine 26, 30
Examination for, in Wine 75
Common Salt in Beer 35, 86
Copper in Absinthe 23, 88
in \Vine 31, 88
Cordials 23
Cream of Tartar, formation of 24
Creosote in Whiskey 17
in Gin 10
Extraction and Identification of 61
Dextrin, formed from Starch 11
in Malt and Beer 34
Distillation to determine Alcohol 41
Distilled Liquors, in general 17
enumerated ] 8
acid constituents of 53
non- volatile constituents of 70
sugar in 73
Diseased Wines 27
Eau-de-vie de marc 22
Elderberry j uice in Wines 30
1NDKX.
Elderberry juice in Wines, Detection of 75
Ether as an adulteration in Alcohol 16,02
Ethers, Compound, formation of 13
in Brandy 22
in Distilled Liquors 17
Extraction and Identification of 48, 59
Ethylic Alcohol : See Alcohol.
Experts for valuation of Wines 28
Extract of Wine and Beer 69
Fatty Acids, formation of 12
Table of 15
Fermentation, Alcoholic 10. 32
of Starch 11
of Cane Sugar 11
Lactic 12
Butyric 12
Acetic (so-called) 12
Fatty acids formed by 12
Mucous 14
Fermented Liquors 24
Formic Acid 15
Separation and Identification 57
Fictitious Wines 29
Flavor of made-up Wines 31
" Fruit Wines " 29, 87
Fusel-oil, formation of 12
Varieties and Constituents of 17
in Distilled Liquors 17
in Whiskey 17
in Wines 29
in Brandy 21
Properties of 48
Separation of 48, 57
Recognized by Odor 49
Examination for 47
Tests for 49
Gamboge in Absinthe 23
Gelatine added toWine 26
Germination of Malt. . 31
104 INDEX.
PAOli
Gin, Constituents and Adulterations 19
Outline of Examination of 96
Glucose, See Sugar
Glycerine, formed in Fermentation 11
in Wine 24
added to Wine 26
in Beer 34
as a liquid non- volatile residue 70
Separation of 73
Grain: See Barley.
Grain Spirit : See Proof Spirit and Distilled Liquors.
Grape Sugar: See Sugar.
Gum formed from Sugar 13
in Must arid Wine 24
Gypsum added to Wine 26, 88
Hop Bitter and Oil in Beer 34
Examination for 80
Hops, proportion to Beer 33
Composition of 33
Substitutes for 35, 3G, 80
Hollands or Holland Gin. 19
" Hungarian Wine Oil" 13, 22, 48
Juniper oil in Gin 19, 50
Lactic Acid formed 1.3
in Beer 34
Liquid non- volatile residue 70
Examination for 05
Lend in Wine 31
Lemon juice in Wines 29
oil in Gin 19
Liqueurs 23
Outline of Examination of . . . 96, 97
Litmus in Wine 30. 75
Logwood in Wines 30, 75
Mult, Germination of 31
Roasting of 32
Composition of 34
Mannite, formation of 13
Marble added to Wine 20
LNDKX.
105
Menyanthin in Beer 30, 80
Methylic Alcohol l-i
in Whiskey IS
Analysis for "> I
M ulberry color '"">
Must,..* 24
Mycoderma Aceti , 13
Nitrite of Ethyl : See Nitrous Ether.
Nitrobenzole in Wine? 31
Nitrous Ether in Brandy 22
Analysis for 02
Non- volatile constituents of liquors Oi)
Oak shavings in Wine >0
Oenanthyc Acid 1<>
Ether 13, 23
Oenocy n in Wine 24
Reactions of To
" Oil of Grapes " 22, 03
" Oil of Wine " in Brandy 23
Examination for 03
Orris Koot in Wines 31
Oxalic Acid in Wines 29
Detected Oo
Pectin in Must and Wine 24
Pelargonic Acid ... 13
Ether, formation of 13
in Wine 31
in Brandy 22
Penieilliiun. Glaucum 11
Percentage of Alcohol 43
Picrotoxiu in Beer 30, 83
Pine-apple oil: See lUitryic Ether.
Porter: See Beer. Also 34
Potassa in G in 10
Privet berries in Wine > 7.1
Proof Spirit 10
Propylic Acid lo
Alcohol i.")
Pyrol igneous Acid (31
6*
100 IXDKX.
Quassia in Beer ............................... , ............. ;;}
Quassin, Detection of ...................... : ................. 8U
Residue of Wine or Beer .................................... Gi>
of Spirits ........................................... 70
Ropy Wine ................................................. 27
Rum, Constituents and Adulterations of ....................... 20
Rum Essence ............................................... 20
Rum, Outline of the Order of Examinations of ............... U(j
Sainbucus : See Elderberry.
Schiedam Schnapps ......................................... 19
Soluble power of Alcohol ...................... . ............. 1)
Specific Gravity of Alcoholic Mixtures ....................... 4o
Spirit of Nitrous Ether: See Nitrous Ether.
Starch, changed to Sugar .................................... 11
in Barley and Malt ................................... JJ4
Strychnia in Whiskey ? ..................................... 18
in Beer ...................................... oG, 80
Succinic Acid, formation of .................................. 11
in Beer ....................................... J>4
Examination for ........... , .................. 65
Sucrose : See Cane Sugar.
Sugar formed by Fermentation ............................... 11
changed to Gum ...................................... l:j
i n Must and Wine ..................................... 2-4
added to Wine ........................................ 20
in Fictitious Wine ..................................... oO
in Barley, Malt, Beer, Ale, Porter ...................... . 34
in Distilled Spirits.
72
Qualitative test for 70
Deterninmt^m of quantity of 70
Determined by alcoholic fermentation 7;J
Sulphate of Iron :.)."), 8S
Sulphates in Wine 2(5
in Beer ]")
in Ash , 87, ^
Ethereal : See " Oil of Wine."
Sulphuric Acid (free) in Wine 2(5
in Beer o3
for (- s , ^>
PAGE
Sulphites in Wine 20
Table of Alcohols and Acids 13
Percentages of Alcohol 45
References for Analysis 9-1
Taunic Acid, in Must and Wine 24
in Brandy 22
added to Wine 2G, oi)
in Hops oo
relations to Liquors GO
Characteristics and Tests GO
Determination of quantity of G7
Tarta" ; c Acid in Wine 24
in made-up wines 21)
in Beer o5
Detected G4
Qualitative examination for G4
Quantitative Determination G4
Tartaric Ether 59
Examination for 59
Tartrate of Potassium, Acid, deposited 24
Determined G4
Neutral, added to Wine 26
Tasting of Wines 28
Temperature, Correction for 47
Tin in Wine ot
Torula Cereviske 10
Total Acid in Wines Determined G3
Turpentine oil in Gin 19, 59
Vaccinium Myrtillus : See Bilberry.
Valerianic Acid 15, 59
Valerianate of Aniyl 13, 59
Volatile Oils in Gin % 19
in Brandy 23
in Wines ol
Extraction and Identification of .' 59
Volumetric Determinations 54, Go
Whiskey. Constituents and Adulterations of IS
Outline of Examination of 95
Wine. Constituents of 0-1
108 INDEX.
PACK
Wine, Additions to 26
Sour or Diseased 27
incapable of artificial production 23
Fictitious 29
Fusel-oil in alcohol added to . 29
Sulphuric Acid added to 29
Acidity of fictitious , 29
Flavoring of fictitious 31
Bouquet of fictitious 81
Tasters 28
Acids to look for in Analysis of , 5.3
Total Acids determined in 63
Tartaric Acid determined in G4
Acidiinetry of 54, Go
Extract or Residue of 69, 70
Examination of, for Color 7.">
Outline of Examination of 97
Wood Spirit : See Methylic Alcohol.
Woody-fibre, changed to Sugar 11
Wormwood in Absinthe 23
in Beer. . ... 80
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