Day Tripping: April 23
Pilsners, Pops, and Pandemics
It’s About Time
Creating a standard and practice for brewing and the sale of beer, Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria endorsed a document defining The German Beer Purity Law in 1516. The law states measurements and pricing for selling beer and serves notice that brewing of the product shall only consist of malts, hops and water.
Not Such A Good Time
Perhaps there should have been a similar edict for making Coca-Cola because, in 1985, the company decided to introduce a new formula. Let’s just say the response to the New Coke fell flat among consumers, and less than three months later, Coca-Cola was forced to bring back the original as Coke Classic.
Time Repeating
In 2003, after reporting 147 new cases and nine more deaths, Chinese officials ordered the closing of all schools in Beijing because of the SARS virus. Though most of the cases were limited to the South East Asian region, Canada was the one western country that felt the effects of the outbreak.
Fortunately for us all, the SARS epidemic has been virtually eradicated. Now, if only we could say the same about the current affliction.
