Alcoholic Drinks, See also Morals
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16/3/1971, In Britain the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) was set up.
31/7/1970,� The British
Royal Navy ended its long tradition of a daily rum ration for the sailors.
After the British capture of Jamaica in 1655, rum had replaced beer because it
remained sweeter for longer in hot climates. From the late 1700s it was mixed
with lemon juice, to ward off scurvy. Later, lime juice (which contained less
vitamin C) was substituted for the lemon, earning the British sailors the
nickname �limeys�.
24/1/1935. Beer was first sold in cans, in Richmond,
Virginia, by the Krueger Brewing Company.
30/4/1925. The Distillers Whisky Group was formed.
1/12/1900, In
Lancashire, 14 died and 2,000 fell ill after drinking beer containing
arsenic.
1896, Michelob Beer was first
produce by Adolphus Busch, who in 1876 had first
produced Budweiser Beer.
1892, Campari aperitif was first
produeced at Sesto Giovanni, Italy by Davide Campari, whose
father Gaspare
Campari had opened a cafe in Milan in 1867.
1873, Coors Beer was first brewed,
in Colorado Territory, USA.
1866, Jack Daniels Whiskey was
first produced at Lynchburg, Tennessee.
18/4/1855, The classification of the wine estates of Bordeaux, according to
quality of wine produced, was agreed.
1851, The first cocktail bar in Britain
was opened by Frenchman
Alexis Soyer, at Gore House, Kensington, London.
1846, Dubonnet was introduced, in Paris.
1840, James Pimm, of Pimms Oyster Bar
in London, developed a new beverage called Pimms
No.1, made from gin, liquers, herbs and spices. It was sold in bottles from
1859.
1840, Carling beer was first produced by Thomas Carling in London,
Ontario.
1830, Teachers Highland Cream Scotch whisky was first produced at a
distillery in Glasgow by William Teacher, aged 19.
1827, Ballantine�s Scotch whisky was first produced at Dumbarton,
Scotland.
1824, George Smith opened Glenlivet in Scotland, the first
licensed whisky distillery.
1820, Beefeater Gin was first produced in London by James Burroughs.
1823, Old Bourbon Whisky was first distilled by Kentucky, USA, distiller James C Crow.
The whisky was aged in charred oak barrels from 1860.
1818, Angostura Bitters were created at Angostura, Venezuela by German
physician Johann
Gottlieb Benjamin Seigert. He created them to counter loss of
appetite And fever in the tropics,� but
it soon became a cocktail ingredient in pink gin
1814, Noilly Prat Vermouth first produced, in France.
9/12/1814, Death of Joseph Bramah, English inventor of the beer pump.
1805, In Switzerland, the Pernod family
set up a business making absinthe, a
strong green liqueur. It was originally made with oil of wormwood, which can
damage the nervous system. It was banned in Switzerland in 1907, in the USA in
1912, and in France in 1918. It is now made using substitutes for the oil of
wormwood.
1795, The first
reference to Australian wine. A letter from the acting Governor of Australia
to Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, referred to �Old Chiffer�.
The wine was produced by Philip Schaffer, the first German to emigrate to Australia.
14/6/1789. A clergyman
first produced whisky distilled from maize. The Reverend Elijah Craig called the
liquor Bourbon
because he lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
9/5/1785. Joseph Bramah patented the beer pump handle.
1784, Bushmills Irish whisky distillery
opened in Ireland.
1780, Jameson Whisky was first produced, in
Ireland.
1777, Bass Ale was first produced at Burton
on Trent, England, by William Bass, aged 57.
1769, Gordons Gin was first produced by Alexander
Gordon in Finsbury, London.
1759, The Guinness brewery was established in Dublin by
Arthur
Guinness. By te 1930s the Dublin brewery cpould not meet total demand,
and a brewery in Park Royal, London, was opened in 1936.
13/4/1748, Joseph Bramah, inventor, was born.
1742, Whitbread
Brewery was established by Samuel Whitbread (1720-96). He undercut his
rivals with a cheap beer, porter�s ale (favoured by market porters).
1735, Annual gin
production in England reached 5.4 million gallons, nearly one gallon for every
man, woman and child. Drunkeness was widespread, as typified by Hogarth�s
illustrations.
1720, Portuguese
wine merchants began fortifying wine with brandy, creating the first port.
See 1300.
1714,
French distiller Jean Martell began distilling cognac from the local wine in
the Cognac region.
28/6/1682. Dom Perignon,
a blind Benedictine cellarman at
Hautevilliers Abbey, invented Champagne.
In 1844 some 7 million bottles of champagne were produced. In 1987 this had
risen to 217 million bottles, The UK was the largest consumer, importing in
1987 some 15 million bottles.
1643, Wurtzberger Beer was first brewed at Wurtzburg Castle, Bavaria.
1592, The start of the Heineken Brewery, as a Dutch brewery
called De Hooiberg (The Haystack). This brewery was bought in 1864 by Gerard Adrian
Heineken.
1525, Hops were introduced to
England, from Artois, Belgium.
Ca.1510. The Abbey of Fecamp,
established around 665, had a monk, Dom Bernardo Vincelli, who dabbled in chemistry.� He
experimented with the production of medicinal beverages and invented the
Benedictine
liqueur.� In the Revolution of
1793 the Abbey was swept away and the monks dispersed.
1/6/1495, Friar John Cor recorded the first known batch
of Scotch
whisky.
1383, Start of the Lowenbrau Brewery, Bavaria.
1300, The first brandy was
distilled at the 92-year-old Montpellier Medical School by medical professor Arnauld
Villeneuve, then aged 65. See 1720.
1154, The English wine industry began to decline
as cheaper French
wines were introduced by Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of the new King Henry II
of England. In turn the availability of Baltic grain via the
Hanseatic League had reduced the revenue from grain production in France,
allowing vine growing to expand.
3750 BCE, Beer was being produced in
Mesopotamia.
5,000 BCE,
Wine was being fermented artificially.