1784 "The Whisky Act" - pannstorleken

[Qonos]

När denna lagen kom till så var det något med pannorna men jag har blivit lite förvirrad. Vissa källor säger att pannorna fick vara hur små som helst dock max 20 gallon, andra säger att de fick vara minst 20 gallon.

Vilka texter ska man lita på? Någon som har koll på vad "The Whisky Act" sa om pannstorleken?

det borde väl vara så att det är minst 20 gallon eftersom de antagligen ville hindre folk från att lätt gömma undan sina pannor, eller?

[drygmasken]

Du menar kanske the "The Wash Act" från 1784? Där nämn dock inget om pannstorlek.

Utan mer att man förenklade skattereglerna.

An intensification of the controls by the excise administration on the legal distilleries permitted the Wash Act to be published in 1784. The spirit of this law was a simplification of the taxation method. The taxation level was also considerably decreased in Scotland and in England, because the independence war in America was ended.

Instead of taxing the "low wines" and the spirit separately, only the wash was taken into consideration under the new law. The tax was based on the assumption that 5 gallons of wash produced 1 gallon of spirit between 55° and 65°. This system was accompanied by very strict controls, which could took place any time in day or night.

Något tidigare däremot så försökte man komma till rätta me den illegala bränningen.

Restrictions to distillation

A disastrous harvest in 1756 obliged the government to forbid distillation on the whole territory. The whisky production decreased by 90% in a few months. This did not impeach home distilleries to continue, of course. Home distillation was not prohibited in those days, if intended for own consumption only, but it was strictly forbidden to sell home made whisky.

The times were hard, and the recently founded Gilcomston distillery has been reconverted into a brewery in 1763. The times were hard for legal distilleries.

The general prohibition about production of alcohol in the legal distilleries encouraged the private producers to sell their alcohol. Lots of people broke the law.

Private production became very important from 1760. It was nearly ten times more important than the official one (which fell beneath 50.000 gallons a year). But the global production was very close to the production before the prohibition. The era of moonshine distilling was born.

Government reaction against the first moonshine distilleries.

The first measures taken by the authorities were not really efficient. They first forbid the use of small stills (less than 500 gallons for wash stills and less than 100 gallons for spirit stills). hey also sealed the stills, in order to avoid them working without authorisation. The pernicious effect of this laws was that new distilleries had to cease their activities (they nearly all disappeared in no time), but did not affect the greatest one (Ferintosh) at all. Another effect was a new important extension of moonshine distillery.

The number of moonshine distilleries was estimated at about 400, for 8 official ones in 1777 in the city of Edinburgh.

[Qonos]

Du menar kanske the "The Wash Act" från 1784? Där nämn dock inget om pannstorlek.

Utan mer att man förenklade skattereglerna.

Något tidigare däremot så försökte man komma till rätta me den illegala bränningen.

självklart menade jag det.

En källa till där det inte står nått om pannorna alls.

nu fick jag en fråga till.. står det nått om det eller inte?

The idea was to encourage the small moonshine distilleries to become legal ones. The law determined a maximum size for the stills

kan denna maximum size ha varit 20 gallons?