Pacific wine and spirit review . ing process, and run to what isknown as proof whisky. Here all other distillers begin the barreling of the product asfinished whisky. The O. F. C. whisky, however, receives an ad-ditional finishing stej] that completes its characterasa perfectwhisky, suijerioi tn all cithers. The product is sulijccted, in air-tight vessels, to an atomiz-ing process that is at the same time detersive—each atom comingin contact with atmospheric oxygen, and causing an oxidation ofthe amylic alcohol (fusel oil) so injurious to other whiskies. This purely logical separation of the i
Pacific wine and spirit review . ing process, and run to what isknown as proof whisky. Here all other distillers begin the barreling of the product asfinished whisky. The O. F. C. whisky, however, receives an ad-ditional finishing stej] that completes its characterasa perfectwhisky, suijerioi tn all cithers. The product is sulijccted, in air-tight vessels, to an atomiz-ing process that is at the same time detersive—each atom comingin contact with atmospheric oxygen, and causing an oxidation ofthe amylic alcohol (fusel oil) so injurious to other whiskies. This purely logical separation of the injurious salts of lead and copper (which other distillers never accomplish), and theoxydation of the fusel oils into odorous essences, gives us a whis-ky, when first liarreled, superior to any other product of the bestdistillation at two years of age. (»f this process and its results men of science have spokeniu the ;rms. IVof Wayne. Analytic ( lieuiisl of Ciu- iinpurilies lead and. cpiirecl ill,|,|,er, aud. ??I have e\aiui)HMl ili,. samples of iiiauulhcluiv. sueh as llic salt;liucl ucme again : ??;?>. K. (. aud Carlisle whiskies are remarkably free froiufusil oil and othcM-alcohols than the elhylic, to tlie presenceof which (esj)eign substance is alhiwecl to conic iu con-tact, by absor[itioii. with the pure spirit in the: oxygen process;but freed of the injurious oils and salts common to all otherwhiskies, it passes to the cisterns to be barreled in splendid_ packages—the pure oil of grain—the genuineO. F. C. whisky withouta rival throughout theworld. Col. A. M. Swope, longCollector of the SevenlliRevenue District ofKentucky, says of it: In my judgmentthere is not a belter orpurer article ot whiskymade in the wciild. And it was the super-ior chac-acter ul thewhisky, that, being ex-
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