Ginger Ale

Back around the turn of the 20th century Toronto pharmacist John J. McLaughlin was busy making fruit-and-herb-flavored soda water that he sold to local drugstores for their soda fountains. In 1904 he developed a ginger-flavored soda he later called Canada Dry Pale Ginger Ale. Although some people argue that ginger ale was invented 50 years earlier in Ireland, McLaughlin’s  distinctively dry recipe – combined with an innovative bottling technique that pumped out large numbers of sealed bottles ready for sale – put the drink on the map.