1929--Whiskey distillery--outtakes
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Men rolling whiskey barrels stored in distillery warehouse during prohibition; voice-over explains that the alcohol will be diluted and used for medicinal purposes. Various scenes showing preparation of whiskey, including knocking hole in barrel, dumping, diluting, machine filling bottles, corking, capping and labeling. Copyright University of South Carolina. All rights reserved. See more of our collection at: https://digital.library.sc.edu/departments/mirc/
Complete Record: Men rolling whiskey barrels stored in distillery warehouse during prohibition; voice-over explains that the alcohol will be diluted and used for medicinal purposes. Various scenes showing preparation of whiskey, including knocking hole in barrel, dumping, diluting, machine filling bottles, corking, capping and labeling. Copyright University of South Carolina. All rights reserved. See more of our collection at: https://digital.library.sc.edu/departments/mirc/
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these barrels have just come from the whales they will be emptied here and the whiskey will be reduced to 100 proof after which it will be pumped to the filling machine after dumping the whiskey is reduced to 100 proof by the addition of distilled water it then goes to the low pressure filling machine for which this is the overflow bowl you now see whiskey passing through the filling machine at the rate of 38 pint bottles a minute parking and capping the aluminum safety cap securely clamped on the bottle assured that this whiskey will reach the consumer without having been tampered with the face and reverse labels are affixed by the machines the government strips name pasted over the neck of the bottle is a guarantee of age and purity these barrels have just come from the warehouse they will be emptied here and the whiskey will be reduced to 100 proof after which it will be pumped to the filling machine [Music] after dumping the whiskey is reduced to 100 proof by the addition of distilled water it then goes to the low pressure filling machine of which this is the overflow bowl you now see whiskey passing through the filling machine at the rate of 38 pint bottles a minute parking and capping the aluminum safety cap securely clamped on the bottle assured that this whiskey will reach the consumer without having been tampered with the face and reverse labels are affixed by the machines the government strips tape paste it over the neck of the bottle is a guarantee of age and Gerti this is the bottling out for about 800 cases of medicinal whiskey our bottled each day in the foreground is a whiskey that is 18 years old you are now passing through a few fine puddles of 13-year old but there's another whiskey [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]
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