fusel-oil

The very volatile head vapors come off first, followed by the main alcohol-rich run, and then the less volatile fusel-oil tails.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

The very volatile head vapors come off first, followed by the main alcohol-rich run, and then the less volatile fusel-oil tails.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

Then the brandies -- the distiller tells you proudly that Spanish brandy is made from wine, and contemptuously that French brandy is not -- old brandies for which a toper would sell his soul; new brandies like fusel-oil; brandies mellow and mild and rich.

The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia 1919

In this new-world _Cabaret de Neant_ he drowned his impatience of soul in a Walpurgis Night of five-cent beer and fusel-oil whiskey.

Never-Fail Blake Arthur Stringer 1912

They are so plentiful that there is no motive to adulterate them, and their use among those of us who are so unwise as to drink anything except water ought to be effectively advocated as supplanting the drinking of beer poisoned with strychnine, whisky poisoned with fusel-oil, and ` ` French claret '' poisoned with salicylic acid and aniline.

Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, Volume I 1905

Or if an Irish toper declared that a bottle of Chambertin, over which French epicures smacked their lips, was insipid and not half as fine as the fusel-oil on which he daily got drunk, would not everybody agree that the Irishman was no judge of liquors, and that the reason why he preferred his cheap whiskey to the

Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

It might be worth while to apply electricity in the form used to destroy fusel-oil.

To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855

It is better prepared in the following manner: -- For the preparation of valerianic acid, 1 part of fusel-oil is mixed gradually with 3 parts of sulphuric acid, and 2 parts of water added.

The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants George William Septimus Piesse 1851

Not having sufficient quantity to purify it for combustion, I dissolved it with potash, by which free fusel-oil was separated, and determined the acetic acid in the form of a silver salt.

The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants George William Septimus Piesse 1851

For its preparation, one pound of glacial acetic acid is added to an equal weight of fusel-oil (which has been prepared by being washed with soda and water, and then distilled at a temperature between 254° and 284° Fahr.), and mixed with half a pound of sulphuric acid.

The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants George William Septimus Piesse 1851