Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-12-02
The Worlds Drinks,


Over a hundred kinds Of wine are
made in Australia.
The best champagne corks cost
about 7 cents each.
In Sweden an appetizer is made Of
the common fennel.
Bacon advised the use of cider and
perry on sea voyages.
The Egyptians attributed the in
vention of beer to Osiris.
The Assyrians had seventy-two dii-
ferent kinds of wine.
Over three hundred mixtures are
known as purely American in use.
Champagne grapes are very little
larger than red currants.
When tea was first brought to Eng
land the leaves were eaten.
Catherine de Medicis introduced
the use of liquors in France.
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.
There are seventy-six different kinds
of punch known to the trade.
Persimmon beer was the favorite
drink of the North American Indians.
Palm wine is favorite beverage in
all countries where the palm is native.
The average amount of alcohol in
beer is 4 per cent, in cider Sc per
cent.
In South America, before the dis
covery, the Indians made beer from
maize.
| Syrup of roses is q white wine
sweetened and favored with rose es-
sence.
Rum is made from the refuse Of
sugar. The best comes from the West
Indies.
The loss of champagne by bursting
bottles sometimes amounts to % per
cent.
Kimmel is brandy sweetened and
favored with coriander and careway
seeds.
The smoky taste OF Scotch whiskey
is due to the use of peat in the manu-
facture.
| Vermouth is composed of white
wine, angelica, absinthe and aromatic
herbs.
The South Sea Islanders make an
Intoxicating drink from corn and de-
cayed fish.
In strong ports and sherries the al
cohol varies in quantity from Is to 25
per ccnt.
Kirschenwasser, drink distilled
from cherries, is a product Of the
Black forest.
Sparkling champagne was the dis
covery of Petrus Perignon, a monk
who died in 1715.
Il Curacao takes its name from the
West India group, where the Dutch
first made this drink.
| Queen Anne was so devoted to
brandy that her subjects called heI
Il Brandyfaced Man."
Beers made of maize or barley are
manufactured by almost every native
African people.
The peculiar flavor OF the Bavarian
beer is due to the use OF pine tops in
its manufacture.
Efiervescing waters were first made
on large scale by J. Schwewppe of Ge
nevs in 1889.
The natives of Siberia prepare {
singularly intoxicating beverage from
a common mushroom.
The wine list OF Sardanapalus has
been found on terra-cotta tablet, an(
, contains ten kinds.
The modern health drinking arose
from the ancient custom of dedic atinl
cups Of wine to divinities.
The difference between brandy ant
whiskey is the fact that the former il
fruit, the latter grain product.
Intoxicating liquors have been mad'
from the sap of the birch, the willow
the poplar, and the sycamore.
i Curacao is made by digesting orang,
peel in sweetened spirits and flavoring
with cinnamon, cloves, or mace.
The Schiedam gin is made of rye
buckwheat, damaged rice, potato
r spirit, or any other handy materials.
The liquors of two centuries ag'
8 were, without exception, invented ant
manufactured in the monasteries.
In making champagne the grape
are squeezed six times, each pressure
t making wine of different quality.
Hippocrates mentions wine made o
medlars, mulberries, asparagus, origa
/ mum, thyme, and many other herbs.
The various processes Of distillatior
are believed to have been introduce,
5 into Europe by the Moors about 115O
The word punch is from the Hindo
stani five, as aqua vite, sugar, arracl
I rose water and citron were its ingredi
ents.
( Napoleon drank Clos,Vougeot, ant
G whenever French regiment marche,
}. past that vineyard it halts and present
arms.
/ In the southern province of Russi
0 drink resembling brandy is obtained
] by distilling the juice of the water
melon.