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1698 Naked Truth of Distillers Case (single sheet) An effectual way to Prohibit the Exportation of Malt Spirits, is to lay a Duty thereon for a time, and take off the Bounty Money.

1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea xx. 412 We generally indeed pay for the Liberty of fetching Water to the King..three or four Knives, and a Bottle of Malt Spirits.

1893 A. E. Waite Collectanea Chemica 102 Now the intention is to raise such a fermentation..for the purposes of brewing, or making malt spirits.

1989 P. Earle Making of Eng. Middle Class ii. 25 Most [distillers] were small men or women who rectified malt spirits on their own premises and sold the resulting lethal concoction to that motley collection of customers who claimed to be able to get drunk for a penny.

2014 T. A. Bringhurst & J. Brosnan in I. Russell & G. Stewart Whisky (ed. 2) vi. 50 Over the last decade, Scotch whisky distillers have been increasing production of both grain and malt spirits in response to a global expansion in demand for their products.