- When spirits are blended and then reduced the operation must be considered distinct.The officer conducting the operations must see that spirits are stirred and thoroughly mixed in blending operations, and after a sufficient time has elapsed must gauge and prove them, any wastage being entered in the appropriate column. In reducing operations, after the additional of water the whole must be similarly stirred and mixed, allowed to rest and then gauged and proved, any wastage arising being shown in the proper columns.
