illicit distillery造句

• The buildings later housed an illicit distillery.
• As the story goes, a revenue officer was trying to ferret out illicit distilleries in Kentucky during the later part of the civil war.
• Illicit distilleries were commonplace throughout the Speyside area from medieval times but were largely made redundant with the passing of the Excise Act in 1823.
• Established in 1823 by James Findlater in the wake of the Excise Act, on the site of an older illicit distillery, Mortlach was the first legal distillery in Dufftown.
• He had not been successful, and being anxious to show results, approached a tipsy soldier, an Irishman, and inquired after  private stills,  as the illicit distilleries are called.
• Coroners in the area reported that the arrack had been contaminated by methyl alcohol, which illicit distilleries sometimes use as a cheaper alternative to regular alcohol, even though it can be deadly.
• According to government figures covering the first four months of prohibition, police arrested 15, 797 people for drinking liquor, seized 177, 145 bottles and 131, 753 pouches of liquor and destroyed 70 illicit distilleries.
• Although there is no historical record of his involvement in the issue, his tenant, George Smith, who was operating an illicit distillery at the time, became the first person in Glenlivet to apply for and receive a license to legally produce spirit.