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Recognize These Taglines?
A whole new slant on things Pisa Nut Liqueur America’s most gifted whiskey Four Roses Bourbon Australian for beer Foster’s Don’t give up the ship Cutty Sark Whisky Driest gin in town – ask any martini Seagram’s Extra Dry … Continue reading
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It Was A Really Bad Idea
The Temperance movement blamed alcohol for many of society’s ills. Saloons were places of evil. Husbands squandered their earnings there, went to work after drinking at lunch and were injured at their jobs, came home drunk and neglected or abused … Continue reading
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Don’t Try This At Home
Distillation separates a fluid containing two or more components into its individual parts. Common examples are refining crude oil into its many elemental substances and separating alcohol from fermented liquid to make alcoholic beverages. Alcohol boils at 172°F, water at … Continue reading
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