I’m diving into the topic of Prohibition in the USA — it’s when they added an amendment to the constitution prohibiting all alcohol, completely, including beer. Back then, Fruit Industries was producing briquettes of dried grape juice, which, of course, being dried, contained no alcohol (by the way, the pills called “dry alcohol” sold in the USSR also contained no alcohol, as alcohols cannot be in a dry form). So, in this packaging, as stated on every corner, there was an instruction: “After dissolving in water, do not allow the mixture to stand in a dry and dark place, or it will turn into wine.” Apparently, millions of Americans hoarded these briquettes for two years and, of course, didn’t dilute them. Until the court finally banned them. It’s claimed that they were sold across the entire USA, and only in the first year a million gallons were sold (hm, dry concentrate in gallons?). But what’s interesting is that there are almost no images of these packages on the web, and absolutely no images of that very instruction. How can this be? Such things always puzzle me. Either they sold too few, or someone made up the instruction, or both. https://grapecollective.com/articles/prohibitions-grape-bricks-how-to-not-make-wine
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