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Gordon's is a brand of London dry gin first produced in 1769. The top markets for Gordon's are the United Kingdom, the United States and Greece. [1] It is owned by the British spirits company Diageo. It is the world's best-selling London dry gin. [2] Gordon's has been the UK's number one gin since the late 19th century. [3]
The use of lemon or lime is a debated issue [7] – some leading brands, such as Gordon's, [8] Tanqueray, [9] and Bombay Sapphire, [10] recommend the use of lime in their gin. The use of a balloon glass for serving gin has become popular, possibly through promotion by the Bombay Sapphire gin brand. [11] The use of such a glass, with plenty of ...
John Landis Mason (c. 1832 in Vineland, New Jersey – February 26, 1902) was an American tinsmith and the patentee of the metal screw-on lid for antique fruit jars commonly known as Mason jars. Many such jars were printed with the line "Mason's Patent Nov 30th 1858". [1] He also invented the first screw top salt shaker in 1858.
Glass bottles and glass jars are found in many households worldwide. The first glass bottles were produced in Mesopotamia around 1500 B.C., and in the Roman Empire in around 1 AD. [1] America's glass bottle and glass jar industry was born in the early 1600s, when settlers in Jamestown built the first glass-melting furnace.
The Ball Brothers' jars, which were produced in half-gallon, pint, and midget sizes, were manufactured during 1884, 1885, and 1886. “Buffalo” jar lids were produced in a Ball Brother metal fabricating factory. The brothers decided to add their logo onto the surface of the glass jars, which were amber or aqua (blue-green) at the time. [3 ...
Fine Fare however had dropped behind in the cheapest supermarket race, with Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury's, Key Markets and International being cheaper in branded and own brands by 1979. [81] By 1980, the business was still in fourth place in market share, though Asda now had a larger share than Fine Fare, and Sainsbury's and Tesco market share had ...
Charles Gordon (25 December 1814 – 27 July 1899) was an English first-class cricketer and gin distiller. A member of the Gordon family, he ran Gordon's Gin from the 1850s. The grandson of the Alexander Gordon, the founder of Gordon's Gin , he was born at Finsbury in December 1814. [ 1 ]
The Gin Craze was a period in the first half of the 18th century when the consumption of gin increased rapidly in Great Britain, especially in London. Daniel Defoe commented: "the Distillers have found out a way to hit the palate of the Poor, by their new fashion'd compound Waters called Geneva, so that the common People seem not to value the ...