Provides period testimony that ice, dilution, and julep service were recognizable features of American beverage culture by the mid-nineteenth century.
The passage appears in a history of commercial ice export from New England to Britain and explicitly attributes the observation to the Illustrated London News.
The authors reproduce an 1845 Illustrated London News report saying Americans commonly used ice with drinks and diluted spirits, while British hotels and taverns were beginning to use imported American ice for mint juleps and other celebrated American beverages.
p. 113 (PDF sheet 246)
Ice
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Verified paraphrase from The Story of Whisky, displayed p. 113 / PDF sheet 246.
Evidence
The exact paraphrase is stored in Excerpt Text. The authors reproduce an 1845 newspaper report describing American ice in diluted spirits and British adoption of imported ice for mint juleps and related American drinks.
Context
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Annotation
Places ice, dilution, and julep service inside recognizable mid-nineteenth-century American beverage culture.
Verification
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