The niasli [moroml} is put iiitu Ioul;-, liempL'ii bags wliich liiwe \>w\\ streii>;tli- 

 encil by being soaked in ]:aki-uo-shibii, the juice of tlio uiiviiie persinitnon.-' 



Each bag is filled about two-thirds full and then contains about .'H shO; the 

 open end is folded over an 1 tied, and from 300 to 500 bags are piled up in tlic 

 press according to its size. At Itanii there are four presses in use, two of which 

 hold 400 bags, and the other two 342. At Nishinomiya the press holds 500 

 bags. At first the weight put upon the lever is very small, otherwise the liquid 

 would run through turbid, but afterwards the weights are increased to 12 or IS 

 hundred pounds. The pressure is kejit up for 12 hovn-s after which tlie weights 

 are removed, the bags turned over, and the pressure renewed for twelve hours 

 longer. The filtrate is slightly turbid and, before use, requires clearir.g. 



At the Tokio brewery one half of the whole quantity of liquid was liltcred 

 on the twenty-seventh, and the remaiinlcr before tlio thirty-sejond day. A 

 simple of the filtered liquid fcvken on that diiy had the following compositiou :— 



Alcohol 11.14 per cent. 



Glycerin, resin and albumcuoids J.!)'.)2 ,, 



Fi.^ed acid 13 ,, 



Volatile acid 02 ,, 



Water (by diftcrence) So. TIS „ 



100.00Ö 

 Specific gravity 0.990 



Compared with the mash on the twenty-eighth day it will be observed that 

 the percenfcige of alcohol is considerably less, adilierence caused by the addition 

 to the mash before filtering of tiie water used by the brewer for the purpose of 

 rinsing out the tuns. 



The composition of the pressed resiilue ikasu) was found to be 



Soluble Solid u'.atter 1.4:5 percent 



Starch and cellnlo.se 32 (l7 „ 



Ash To „ 



Alcohol fi.OO „ 



Water 59 80 „ 



100.00 



Th(^ alcohol which is luiavoidably hit in the residue is extracted at a later 

 |ierio(l by a process of distillation which will bo described on a KubsHinent page. 



The amount of sake obtained by the brewer from the quantities given above 

 for onj moto w.is (i.8(i koku of sp. gr. 0.99. therefore weighing 32tj k\v , and 

 the weiglit of the residue was 5S kuwaiinne \\ <• are nnw in possession of all 



• For on cxplanntion of the action of ibi» liquid iii>on clolli nnd pn|or, hoc laliiltnwn. Ch:'in. 

 N<!WH. llcc. ;iril IHM.). 'rmiwnclioiiH of til-- .V.siiitio Soc. or<Iii|iun. I.\. !iii. 



