Let it ferment for about a fortnight; then add the brandy, bung up the cask, and let it stand some months before it is bottled, when it will be found excellent.
Let it stand for 3 days, then put it into a barrel; here it will work or ferment for another three days or more; then bungup the cask, and keep it undisturbed for 2 or 3 months.
I laid the keg down, bringing the bung right side up, and, having no stopper, I proceeded to fill the opening with leaves.
The drunkard is shut up in a barrel with the bottom out, so that he can walk, with a hole in the top, through which his head is passed, and with two in the bung for his hands, so that he cannot lie down.
And the friends of Helmsgail repeated their benevolent exhortation,-- "Bung up his peepers!
They had, however, replaced in the flask a sort of bung made of tarred oakum, which had been used to cork it.
Then Helmsgail heard on all sides these encouraging words,-- "Bung up his peepers!
For this purpose, the beer from the store cask running through the pipe, B, enters the keg through a hollow copper bung, fitting light into the bunghole by means of a rubber washer.
When the fermentation moderated, I put the bung in loosely, lest stopping it tight, might cause the cask to burst.
If it is wanted to be soon ripe for use, put a quart of good old brandy after it is racked off, to the barrel, and give it air by leaving the bung quite loose.
Ivory shavings boiled in your wort, or hartshorn shavings put into your cask just before you bung it down, will do much towards fining and keeping your liquor from growing stale.
It was then put into a barrel, and after the fermentation commenced, the cask was filled every day for three or four days, with water, that the filth might work out of the bung hole.
Tommy Bung brought his effort to a conclusion by beating the floor, the soles of his feet, the scenery, and punctuated the final thwack with a well timed leap on the prompter's box.
Tommy Bung was ready for the audience and had already fallen into a tub of whitewash.
Up and down, up and down, twisting, curvetting, Tommy Bung held his audience spellbound with rhythm.
Fill the barrels not over two-thirds full, use a cotton plug or cheesecloth screen at the bung and keep at a warm temperature.
The casks should be filled only two-thirds full, the bung left open but screened with cheesecloth or lightly fitted with a plug of cotton to admit air.
Sebille Auger introduced with success his elasticbung in the manufacture of wine in the department of the Maine-et-Loire.
The casks are now closed by a bung secured with a piece of hoop iron nailed to two contiguous staves.
The main bung being then opened, the remaining contents of the casks are emptied into the wash-tun, while the pieces of iron are kept back.
Those of the first bung rest upon round tiles, and are well luted together with a finely ground fire-clay of only moderate cohesion; those of the second bung are supported by an additional tile.
Lastly, to every 9 gallons, put 1 quart of good Cognac brandy (but not the drugged imitations made in London with grain whiskey), and bung down.
The last sagger of each bung is covered with an unbaked one, three inches deep, in place of a round lid.
Wouldn't I bung up old Billson's peepers, that's all?
I got my box fixed en' I pushed at de bung, I pushed dis way, en dat way like I seed him do when all at once dat bung flew out en' dat lasses flew all over de place.
Den I run call Masta' and tell him a bung dun bust out.
De barrel was full en' it cum out so fast I couldn't git de bung back in.
As usual, I removed the block and out with the bung, then down with my mouth to the bung hole and over with the barrel until the delightful liquid reached my anxious lips.
In course of ages, what with dirt and gravel and sichlike, the bed of the river aer got filled bung up, and the water aer made a different course.
Every barrel had to be tested before final shipment, and when we arrived a man was going round for this purpose trying each cask after the bung had been extracted.
Then a helper, who followed behind, thumped in the bung while the foreman made his notes in a book, and in a few minutes a man or a woman came and rolled the barrel away.
MOB LAW AND LYNCH LAW are working like yeast in a barrell, and frothing at the bung hole.
The silence was broken only by the lowing of a cow or the splash of the cider as it dropped at regular intervals from the bung of the cask.
He has but to draw this bung and water will pour forth into this trough till he stops it again.
As for water, it may be had at this trough here, and a goodly supply; only it comes with somewhat of a rush, and the bung is not easily rammed back in its place.
There lay the little green barrel; turned over by the restless Dick, it lay with its bung pointing to the leaves above.
Pull the bung out of the barrel, and let the contents escape?
It was in vain to hold the breaker with the bung out to prove its dryness, the half-delirious creatures had it fixed in their minds that their comrades were withholding from them the water that was not.
You curse the grog at sea when you can't get it; set you ashore, and you're bung full.
