MULQUEEN, J. T. Ed. by. The Revenue Review. Vols. I–III. March 1901 – February 1904. With diagrams.

Three volumes. Falkirk: Printed by George Inglis, 1901/1904. Octavo. pp. (1) viii, 864 (2) xii, 864 (3) viii, 864. A very good set; internally clean and well preserved.
A scarce and highly informative early twentieth-century periodical devoted to the technical, regulatory, and commercial aspects of revenue, distillation, and brewing, edited by J. T. Mulqueen, later Collector for the Dublin District.
Published at a time when the Irish whiskey industry was undergoing significant structural change, these volumes contain a wide range of material directly relevant to distillers and revenue officials, including discussions of illicit distillation in Ireland, still design, whisky maturation and ageing, and the chemistry of both brewing and distillation. Particularly noteworthy is coverage of “grogging,” the practice of extracting residual alcohol from cask timber - an obscure but revealing aspect of the trade. Notes on the 1903 Budget; Mr. Gladstone’s Revenue Departments; Notes on Current Science; Yeast Making; Books to Buy; White Ale; the Bavarian Beer Industry Arsenic Scare; Lager Beer; Chemistry of Brewing; Answers to Correspondence; Revenue and Trade Notes; Cider Making in Normandy; Moisture in Tobacco; National and Local Taxation; Examination of Supervisors; Sugar Taxation; Tied Houses; Tobacco Culture in Ireland; Carrickfergus; Duty-Free Pure Spirits; Malt Analysis; Glasgow Promotion Class; Mr. J. Steele, C.B., and the West Indies; Important Duty on Corn; F.L. Lambert of Roscommon, Late Chief Inspector of Excise; Distillery Processes; Excise Licensing System, etc.
The work offers a rare insight into the practical and scientific knowledge underpinning the spirits industry in the years preceding the First World War, and stands as an important documentary source for the intersection of chemistry, taxation, and production in Irish whiskey.