The Chemist - Based on a True Story by Chris Blewitt

Author:Chris Blewitt [Blewitt, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-04-29T04:00:00+00:00

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It was Tommy Barone’s fifth trip to the docks where he met the Irishmen and paid them for the stolen cans of industrial ethanol. They kept the quantities the same, six boxes. He upped the fee he paid them to two hundred dollars, still pocketing three hundred for himself. After pulling into the warehouse and unloading the boxes, he decided to stick around and see how Bags made the vile liquid they were producing and selling.

“The first thing we do is boil this ethanol and we capture the fumes, the vapor that the steam gives off.” Bags pointed to a coiled piece of copper rubbing set next to the large kettle. “Here you see the collection of the steam. It is now alcohol. We get enough steam, it turns to liquid. I then flavor this by setting Birchwood inside the fermentation tank to give it some woody taste. It now has to age for a couple weeks in the wooden barrels over there and then it is ready for sale. Pretty simple.”

“Is it safe?” Tommy asked.

Bags laughed. “Safe enough!”

Tommy didn’t like the last comment by the old man and the chuckle that followed. He couldn’t believe the fact that they were making booze from something that was made to make paint. This could not be healthy, especially for those that consumed a lot of it. Tommy didn’t pay attention to what happened after the booze was made and left the warehouse. That was left to the man upstairs.

The Bear had a decent enough system. After the booze was made, Bags told him it had to age for two months but The Bear sped up that process to two weeks. They were making roughly two barrels a day of the stuff and selling them for five hundred a pop. Seven thousand a week was not a bad profit for bootlegging. He paid out his men who delivered the stuff, paid Bags and Tommy and then had to pay his boss up in New York. Still, he took home two-thousand a week for his little operation. Prohibition was not all that bad to The Bear.

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