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Launched in 2013, Orijin Ready to Drink (RTD) went on to become the fastest-growing innovation brand in Diageo history. [1] In 2015, Orijin had more than 50 percent of the market for non-beer bottled drinks with a similar alcohol proof , according to data tracker Nielsen Nigeria. [ 2 ]
The use of the drink in the series coincided with a renewed interest in this and other classic cocktails in the 2000s. [ 40 ] It was also the basis of an oft-quoted line from the 1963 movie It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World , when boozy pilot Jim Backus decides to make the cocktail and leaves passenger Buddy Hackett to fly the plane.
The most prominent theories are that it refers to a stimulant, hence a stimulating drink, or to a non-purebred horse, hence a mixed drink. Cocktail historian David Wondrich speculates that "cocktail" is a reference to gingering , a practice for perking up an old horse by means of a ginger suppository so that the animal would "cock its tail up ...
The origin of pulque is unknown, but because it has a major position in religion, many folk tales explain its origins. [37] Balché is the name of a honey wine brewed by the Maya. The drink shares its name with the balché tree (Lonchocarpus violaceus), the bark of which is fermented in water together with honey from the indigenous stingless ...
Dutch or Belgian gin, also known as jenever or genever, evolved from malt wine spirits, and is a distinctly different drink from later styles of gin. Schiedam, a city in the province of South Holland, is famous for its jenever-producing history. The same for Hasselt in the Belgian province of Limburg.
A flip is a class of mixed drinks. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term was first used in 1695 to describe a mixture of beer, rum, and sugar, heated with a red-hot iron ("Thus we live at sea; eat biscuit, and drink flip"). [1] The iron caused the drink to froth, and this frothing (or "flipping") engendered the name. Over time ...
Caipirinha (Portuguese pronunciation: [kajpiˈɾĩɲɐ]) is a Brazilian cocktail, of São Paulo origin, [1] with cachaça (sugarcane hard liquor), sugar, lime, and ice. [2] The drink is prepared by mixing the fruit and the sugar together, then adding the liquor.
Daiquirí is also the name of a beach and an iron mine near Santiago de Cuba in eastern Cuba, and is a word of Taíno origin. [1] The drink was supposedly invented by an American mining engineer named Jennings Cox, who was in Cuba (then at the tail-end of the Spanish Captaincy-General government) at the time of the Spanish–American War of 1898.