Oddbean new post about login | logout @f1ee7a25 It gets worse. My Dad's mother was a Malcolmson. They started Beaufoy Grimble distillers in Scotland making Sarsons Vinegar and Booths Gin. It became British Vinegars and The Distillers Company, eventually sold to Nestle and Guinness. My dad was responsible for launching the iconic red-clear Sarsons vinegar bottle. The entire UK brewing industry did an apprenticeship at Greene King and then inter-married. They're all related or know each other.
@6fce6863 oh that is interesting! Purely because of my name, I wish Booth’s Gin was still a live brand. I think Diago were going to revive it but then oddly didn’t - odd given the gin craze of recent years. Then sold it to a US company who don’t seem to have done anything with it.
@f1ee7a25 Every time I dig into this stuff, I discover something new. >In 1840 William Grimble of Albany Street, London, a gin distiller by trade, decided to embark on producing vinegar from spirit left over from his distillery. He went into partnership with another distiller, Sir Felix Booth, > Ivor Forbes Malcolmson, joined in 1898. Ivor would become head of the business a few years later. My middle name 'Ivor', my dad's and my son's middle name 'Forbes'. https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/5056aadf-0d1f-3b44-9266-d9e7fe016f65