Another brandy, which is found abundant upon the market in the United States, is that made from blackberries. True blackberry brandy is made only from the blackberry which has been crushed and fermented and the fermented liquor distilled. There is thus produced a true blackberry brandy, which not only has excellent properties as a beverage but is highly prized for medicinal purposes. Blackberry brandy is a home remedy of great efficiency in almost all forms of diarrhoea. In general the blackberry brandy of commerce is produced by expressing the juice of the blackberry, and mixing with sugar before fermentation. This makes in no sense of the term a brandy, but probably it might pass as a cordial.

This liquor is also highly esteemed for its medicinal properties for the same reason stated above. It cannot, however, be regarded in the same light as a true brandy, and should not, of course, be sold under the name of blackberry brandy.

Immense quantities of blackberries grow wild in the United States, and if this industry were properly fostered and placed upon a scientific basis and the product properly aged it is believed it would become a profitable source of income to the farmer. All these things depend upon the installing of small stills for agricultural uses.

The passages of the denaturated alcohol act has not encouraged the erection of such stills through the agricultural regions, and the state and national restrictions on the manufacture and sale of fruit brandies, keep the industry from growing. Of course, it would be necessary that there should be trained men to conduct both the fermentations and the distillations.