1908 The World's Drinks and How to Mix Them by Hon Wm Boothby

:,..: .. : .. :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: ~ J w ·itty, Wise and Otherwise ~i~ ·:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: .. :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: ... ~-:..:-:~: Good wine needs no IJush.-Shakeszienre. · Over a hundred kinds of wine are made in Australia. A dozen different kinds of beer are made in Borneo. ln Sweden an appetizer is made from common fenn el. The Egyptians attributed the invention of beer to Osiris. T he Assyrians had seventy-two kinds of wine. Over three hundred different drinks are known as purely American in use. Champagne grapes are little larger than red currants. Catherine de Medicis introduced the use of liquors in France. Wine skins made of the hides of animals are used in the rural districts of Spain. Ancient wines were black, red, straw color, white, or tawny brown. Brandy was first used medicinally and miraculous cures were ascribed to its employment. Ecau is double-distilled kummel madii ,into a liqueur. Wines and liquors are expensive luxuries. A man who is broke should not have such luxurious habits. Mead was made from honey a nd water fermented, und is the oldest alcoholic drink mentioned in history. P erry and ·dried apples a re much used in the adulteration of champagne. The Chinese have a barley beer which is sweet and drunk warm. Spruce beer is made by boiling the shoots, bark and cones of the fir. The Saxons made beer from beets, turnips and the common heather. P ersimmon beer was a favorite drink with the North American Indians. Palm wine is the favorite beverage in all countries where the palm is a native. Indians made beer from maize in South America before tlie time of Columbus. Hangers-on and buttinskys have bankrupted many a saloonman. Syrup of rose is any white wine sweetened and flavored with rose essenc('. The loss of champagne by bursting bottles sometimes amounts to twenty- fi ve per cent. .. :-:-:-:-:. y Hermetically sealed wine fla sks have been found in Pompeii. '.fhe word "brandy" is from the Dutch "Brandwijn"-burnt wine. Port wine is famous for its gont·proclucing properties.