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spirit production.

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Rectification. By far the greater proportion of the spirits consumed
in Sweden is rectified, either by means of charcoal filtration alone or
by re-distillation, with which latter process fresh charcoal filtration is
often combined.

The re-distillation of crude spirits is effected in special rectifiers, in which,
fusel-oil and other impurities are separated from the spirits, and ethyl alcohol is
obtained in a pure, or almost pure, state. Though several distilleries are now
furnished with their own rectifiers, the rectifying of spirits is carried on
principally as a special industry at factories where distilling is not done. The total
number of the rectifying-works and the amount of rectified spirits produced is
shown by the following table:

No. of

Annaally rectifying-

works

1901—05 ............ 20 403 660

1906-10 ............. 18 395 537

1910 ............... 17 332 055

1911 ............... 12 297 287

1912 ............... 9 257 872

Amount of
rectified spirits
of 50 %
alcohol-vol., bl

Important rectifying-works are those at Reymersholm, near Stockholm, and
those at Gothenburg, Kristianstad, Karlshamn, Motala, etc.

The largest rectifying-establishment that ever existed in Sweden was the one
started at Karlshamn about 1885; its object was to refine crude spirits for
subsequent exportation. Between 1885 and 1891, no less than 1 650 000
^hecto-liters of crude spirits of 50 % alcohol-volume were dealt with at this establishment.

The methylation of spirit for the purpose of rendering it unfit for
consumption has been permitted since 1888; the restitution of excise follows. The
methods of effecting it are different, according to the purpose for which the
spirits are to be applied. The spirits that have been methylated by the so-called
general methylating means (a mixture of ten parts of methylic alcohol to three
parts of pyridine base), 13 cubic centimeters of which are added to each liter
of spirits at proof, can be sold without let or hindrance. At the present time
64 ore per liter is returned of the spirit manufacturing excise paid. — The
amount of spirits methylated has been, on an average per year, in hectoliters
of 50 % strength:

1901—05: 31 465 hi; 1906—10: 47 972 hi; 1911: 61812 hi; 1912: 69 000
hi; 1913: 57 280 hi, inclusive of fusel-oil and sulphite spirit. The methylation
of spirits in 1912 and 1913 was for the following purposes:

Year 1912 1913

for scientific purposes........ 184 hi 168 hi

> hospitals............ 564 » 561 »

» vinegar works.......... 2 965 » 3 009 >

> chemical technical works..... 3 498 > 3 604 >

» gunpowder factories.......3 211 » 2 998 »

» colour- and varnish factories ... 3 082 > 2 317 >

, free sale............ 55 502 » 44 623 »

Punch Manufactories. A kind of drink peculiar to Sweden is the
so-called Swedish punch, a mixture of arrack, water, and sugar in varying
proportions.

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