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Drinks & Drinking 2
But, why is the rum gone? (Sparrow, 2007)
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Drinks & Drinking 1
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Wine
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AOC
Note that AOC is not a wine. It is the start of France trying to control the quality of their wines. Thus, they have a governing body to take care of wines
Until today, AOC concept is still being applied to our wines that we drink today. It is reflected on the label of wines
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Alcohol consumption dropped due to the entrance of new beverages, in particular coffee and tea
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Spirits
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Rum
Came as there were a lot of raw ingredients around. And the raw ingredients in this case are molasses
Molasses are from sugar canes and it comes from Caribbean and the Barbados where they have so much of it and they want to produce it into alcohol
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The consumption of spirits, especially so for Gin and eventually Brandy, cause a rise in drunkenness and eventually became major social problems especially for the lower class
However, there are people who uses Gin and Rum to give them courage to fight in battles and when the war stopped, the soldiers became a social outcast
They are so used to drinking that they tend to fall into depression an dstarted to cause problems in society
All these developments to create a new attitude towards the consumption of alcohol beverages and the government know they need to do something
So they introduced a new thing called the temperance movement, that help avocate complete abstinence on their approach to alcohol
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Wine
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Somehow became an aspirational drink rather than a fortifying job to relieve the strains of heavy manual work
This whole change in mindset started to change the drinking activities - beers and spirits are linked to the hard life while wines are linked to more casual and relaxed life
Seen in local scene - in the 1800s, in wedding receptions the drinks were mostly spirits, in particular Brandy