Vendaval -> Who is that man on the liquor bottle? (3/30/2009 4:19:29 PM)
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Ever wonder about some of the men's names on your favorite liquors? Captain Morgan was a feared 17th Century privateer; Johnnie Walker ran a grocery in Kilmarnock, Scotland in the 1800's, his son Alexander was the whiskey maker; Jack Daniel was the descendent of Welsh immigrants and brewed whiskey in Lynchburg, Tennesse; the founding Jose Cuervo received a land grant from the King of Spain for land in Jalisco, Mexico; Jim Beam was the great-grandson of the man who actually started the distillery, Jacob Bean; Charles Tanqueray broke with the family tradition of becoming a clergyman; and Gaspare Campari started as a master drink mixer in Turin and later produced and marketing his own apertif in Milan. The recipe remains a closely guarded secret. Bottoms up! [sm=buddies.gif] http://blogs.static.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/20098.html
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