SOME ARE DREAMERS AND SOME ARE...
The liquor merchant was heavily invested in a particular brand of
popular whiskey but the newly elected governor was looking for a way
to enhance revenues. A law was pushed through that levied a special
new tax on all hard liquors. The frantic merchant, eager to maintain
his large stock of whiskey quickly devised a plan to disguise his
product as wine. Late into the night he laboriously soaked every
bottle and re-labeled it as red wine. Knowing that this alone
wouldn't really fool anyone, he also opened each bottle in the crate,
added a bit of red food coloring and re-sealed it with a cork. It was
a case of Dewar dye!
Gary Hallock