Zinsser v. Krueger’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate ·

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1. ““The invention consists in treating beer and other liquids o£ a similar nature with lumps of bicarbonate of soda or of other alkali, said lumps being compacted by means of a suitable cement, so that they are heavy enough to at once drop through the liquid to he treated upon the bottom of the vessel containing the liquid. The carbonic acid evolved from said lumps is thus compelled to permeate the entire column of liquid above it, and at the same time to give up the requisite quantity of alkaline matter. Together with the lumps of biearbonales of alkali may be used lumps of tartaric or other suitable acid, compacted in the same manner as the lumps of bicarbonate of alkali, so that the amount of carbonic acid evolved from the latter can he easily controlled. It is a common practice with brewers and others to use bicarbonate of soda, either alone or together with tartaric acid, in the manufacture of beer, sparkling wines, and other effervescent liquids, for the purpose of increasing the life of such liquids. The mode of applying such article or articles by brewers, for instance, is to apply about one ounce of the bicarbonate of soda to each quarter barrel with a table-spoon, the bicarbonate being in the form of a powder. The powder, on being thrown into a barrel of beer, will at first float on the surface of the liquid, and immediately evolve carbonic acid, a large portion of which is lost, together with the beer which is thrown out by the action of the acid before the barrel can”

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