the gin and tonic was invented to mitigate the awful taste of anti-malarial tonic water
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People were mixing spirits and calling them 'cocktails' at least a century prior to Prohibition.
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All of it.
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Pre-Prohibition cocktails were mostly booze. Prohibition changed that, added slew of sweeteners, because the hooch was so foul.
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Also, read Imbibe, which is authoritative on this stuff.
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well, all the whisky maturation in oak casks is basically about that
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@Pinboard development team drink themselves to stupor instead of fixing their flawed product? Sad!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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IPAs were invented because the beer would spoil on the boat from England to India—hops masked that.
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