01/06

The Czech daily, Lidové noviny, brought the information that Stock Terst co., owner of 51% of shares of Fernet Stock, has been incorporated in the German group ECKES, producer of spirits and fruit juices (1995).

06/06

Champagne producers met in Epernay to discuss the measures to be taken against phylloxera, which had infested French vineyards (1891)
The first batch of Fernet Stock was produced in Božkov (1927).

16/06

Bloom’s Day is commemorated in Dublin’s Davy Byrne’s Pub, where the literary protagonist of James Joyce’s Odysseus, Leopold Bloom, had a gorgonzola sandwich and a glass of burgundy; it is this day that the story took place (1904).

17/06

Dean Martin’s birthday /née Dino Paul Crocetti/. One of his notorious statements; “I pity people who don’t drink. They get up every day knowing that they won’t be feeling any better the whole day” (1917).

21/06

The Austrian government issued a law on the preparation and serving of drinks similar to wine in order to curb the production of fake wines, semi-wines and artificial wines (1888).

22/06

Petrus de Kuyper married Anne Custers and so founded the dynasty of future distillers; he himself was a cooper and made barrels for the transport of geneva and beer (1695).

23/06

Issued - a French law according to which all cognac trademarks had to be registered in order to stop the practices of unscrupulous middlemen, who imported cheap brandy to the designated area and, having provided it with a label of origin, speedily dispatched it to a port (1857).

26/06

The daily “Western Citizen”, issued in Bourbon County, Kentucky,
published a historical advertisement in which the term Bourbon Whiskey appeared for the first time (1821).
At four o’clock in the afternoon, the first lecture in the field of beer brewing commenced in the chemistry classroom at the Royal Czech Estates Educational Establishment in Husova street in Prague (1818).