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	Gin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dutch gin, known as jenever, is a distinctly different drink from English-style gin; it is distilled with barley and sometimes aged in wood, giving it a slight resemblance to whisky.
		Gin became very popular in England after the government created a market for poor quality grain that was unfit to be used in brewing beer by allowing unlicensed gin production and at the same time imposing a heavy duty on all imported spirits.
		Gin, in the form of secretly-produced "bathtub gin", was a common drink in the speakeasies of Prohibition-era America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gin (917 words)

	Spirits: Gin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Gin and its Lowlands cousin Genever (Jenever in Belgium) are white spirits that are flavored with juniper berries and so-called botanicals (a varied assortment of herbs and spices).
		British gins tend to be high proof (90° or 45% ABV) and citrus-accented from the use of dried lemon and Seville orange peels in the mix of botanicals.
		Gin, on the other hand, did not require any aging, and was relatively easy to make by mixing raw alcohol with juniper berry extract and other flavorings and spices in a large container such as a bathtub (thus the origin of the term "Bathtub Gin").
	www.tastings.com /spirits/gin.html (2200 words)

	Gin Lane - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		William Hogarth produced the twin engravings Beer Street and Gin Lane at the height of what became known as the London Gin Craze in 1751.
		Gin Lane is an image of urban decay at its most demonic.
		The central figure is a gin-addled mother, too drunk to notice that she has let her new-born baby fall to its death as she reaches for a peck of snuff.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Gin_Lane (257 words)

	Encyclopedia: Gin Lane
		The gin crisis was genuinely severe, and Hogarth's paintings and prints were not as much caricature as one might assume.
		Hogarth's Gin Lane is located in St. Giles, and the most shocking figure in it is the drunken mother.
		Typically, the central figure is a gin-addled mother, too drunk to notice that she has let her baby fall to its death as she reaches for a peck of snuff.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gin-Lane (1156 words)

	Gin & Vodka Association - The Production of Vodka
		Sometimes gin was distributed to workers as part of their wages and soon the volume sold daily exceeded that of beer and ale, which was more expensive anyway.
		The Gin Act, finally recognised as unenforceable, was repealed in 1742 and a new policy, which distillers helped to draft was introduced: reasonably high prices, reasonable excise duties and licensed retailers under the supervision of magistrates.
		Gin had been known as 'Mother's Milk' from the 1820s but later in the century it became known as 'Mother's Ruin', a description perhaps originating from the earlier 'Blue Ruin' of the prohibition era in the previous century.
	www.ginvodka.org /history/origingin.html (1060 words)

	Gin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		London Dry gin is usually accepted as a style, by far the most popular, and not as an indication that the product comes from London, though a few countries, particularly France, insist that only gin imported from Britain may carry the title.
		To pour gin on a spot where an eminent foot was to be placed was an indication of signal respect.
		Plymouth gin was previously an aromatic gin, distinctively different to London Dry and particularly associated with the pink gin favoured by Navy officers.
	users.bigpond.net.au /mickandlucyna/mickstavern/gin.htm (1553 words)

	An Enquiry into the Relationship between Society and the Church in Regards to Problems
		‘Gin Lane’ and ‘Beer Street’ its companion piece are concerned with the high consumption of gin among the working classes in the eighteenth century; the plates were part of a general attempt to legislate the sale of the alcohol that brought about the Gin Act in 1751.
		Beer Street and Gin Lane were done when the dreadful consequences of gin drinking was at its height.
		In Gin Lane every circumstance of its horrid effects are brought to view; nothing but Idleness, poverty, misery and ruin are to be seen.
	user.gru.net /darusdp/ginlane/sandc.html (1733 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Beer Street and Gin Lane
		Gin Lane shows the terrible effects of drinking gin, leading to poverty, cruelty, infanticide, suicide and death; while Beer Street demonstrates the invigorating health, strength and cheerfulness of those who drink beer.
		He is painting a sign advertising gin, with a gin bottle hanging as a model for his painting from the frame of the tavern sign.
		At her feet is the equally drunken skeletal figure of a man in the last throes of death, with a gin glass slipping from his fingers in one hand as he clutches a gin bottle with the other.
	www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6398 (1862 words)

	Forbes.com - Magazine Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Gin is essentially a clear distilled grain spirit flavored with various "botanicals," the most prominent of which is juniper.
		As the 20th century progressed, the transformation of gin's image from the drink of the dissolute urban poor to that of the sophisticated elite was completed.
		Ironically, the immense popularity of gin in America in the 1930s, '40s and '50s was largely due to Prohibition; bathtub gin was the easiest and cheapest bootleg alcohol to make, so party-goers developed a taste for it which they didn't give up when the stuff became legal again.
	www.forbes.com /2003/06/03/cx_np_0603feat_print.html (3293 words)

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		The point of his argument is that the gin may or may not affect the physical health, but helps the mental stability of the common people in the eerie climate of London.
		In Gin Lane he depicts a horrific scene of a symbolic street rampant with drunks and gin.
		In the preamble of the Gin Act of 1751, the primary rationale is “the health and morals of the common people (Gin Act of 1751)’ and ‘Parliament assembled.have taken this great evil into our serious consideration (Gin Act of 1751).’ The issues of health and morals are the heart of the Act.
	www.du.edu /~mpoole/history.doc (688 words)

	Gin Lane -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		They were printed at the same time as Hogarth's friend (English novelist and dramatist (1707-1754)) Henry Fielding published his contribution to the debate on gin: An Inquiry into the Late Increase in Robbers.
		The central figure is a gin-addled mother, too drunk to notice that she has let her new-born baby fall to its death as she reaches for a peck of (Finely powdered tobacco for sniffing up the nose) snuff.
		However, it is a far more powerful imaginative feat than Beer Street; its hellish but oddly ambivalent vision led the writer (and serial drinker) (English essayist (1775-1834)) Charles Lamb to describe it some years later as " (Click link for more info and facts about sublime) sublime".
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gi/gin_lane.htm (161 words)

	Gin Lane by HOGARTH, William
		Among the strong didactic pieces by Hogarth is Gin Lane, his graphic lecture on the evils of drinking gin.
		In the lower left-hand corner is the notorious gin cellar.
		The most horrible scene is in the foreground, where a woman, breasts exposed and a drunken grin on her face, reaches for a pinch of snuff.
	gallery.euroweb.hu /html/h/hogarth/zginlane.html (351 words)

	Culture UK - what makes the Britsh so ... British! Mothers Ruin or Gin
		Gin had become the poor man's drink as it was cheap, and some workers were given gin as part of their wages.
		Gin rendered men impotent, and women sterile, and was a major reason why the birth rate in London at this time was exceeded by the death rate.
		Gin was the opium of the people, it led them to the debtors' prison or the gallows, ruined them, drove them to madness, suicide and death, but it kept them warm in winter, and allayed the terrible hunger pangs of the poorest.
	historic-uk.com /CultureUK/MothersRuin.htm (717 words)

	Gin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It is made from the distillation of white grain spirit and juniper berries (or sloe berries, in the case of sloe gin), which provide its distinctive flavour.
		The taste of ordinary gin is very dry (unlike sloe gin), and as such it is rarely drunk neat.
		In the 19th century, gin became a more respectable drink, and was often drunk mixed with quinine-based tonic water in malarial areas of the British Empire.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/G/Gin.htm (751 words)

	Human Events: A stroll down gin lane
		Gin, that most versatile of spirits, is it.
		Gin has been with us for 500 years or so, and it's the base of some 300 cocktails no more than two-dozen of which are drinkable.
		Yet for all its popularity and ubiquity, gin remains saddled with a reputation as a cheap spirit good for nothing but a quick trip to the gutter.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_200105/ai_n8988367 (1259 words)

	Gin Lane and Beer Street (1751) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Example: the skeletal, dying man at the bottom right of Gin Lane vs. the fat, happy beerdrinkers of Beer Street (they didn't worry about cholesterol in the 18th century).
		One obvious example of the "evils of drink" that Hogarth portrays in Gin Lane is the terrible abuse of children.
		In Gin Lane, the only people working are the gin sellers and the pawnbroker, who is lending money to a carpenter and a housewife.
	www.bampfa.berkeley.edu /exhibits/hogarth/hogarth5.html (627 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Gin consumption increased; moreover, the laws created a working-class atmosphere of "open contempt for the law and its agents." In the book's final chapter, Warner paints an interesting parallel between the "gin craze" and the recent war on drugs.
		Of course, it was a social evil for the ruled classes, for gin became a craze among the poor of the city.
		Meticulously researched and deftly written by Jessica Warner, Craze is an informed and informative social history into the mania for gin which overtook London during the early 18th century probes why the society of the times become involved in gin as a drug, and how the working poor became addicted to it.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1568582315 (1059 words)

	eye - DRINKS - 07.31.97
		Four ice cubes in a highball glass, two ounces gin, a fat wedge of lime, squeezed, and a generous splash of tonic.
		But widespread abuse, as seen in Hogarth's Gin Lane, led to the rise of the temperance movement, the imposition of heavy taxes and, eventually, a significant decline in use.
		Gin is a grain spirit, distilled together with, or through, a variety of herbs, spices and other 'botanicals.' Of these, the most important are juniper berries, angelica root, coriander and lemon.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_07.31.97/plus/drinks.html (662 words)

	Stanton's Bookshop: Alcohol
		Gin was a cheap, mass-produced form of alcohol imported to England from the continent that became immediately popular in some working-class districts of London.
		Warner makes clear the social meanings of gin, its consumption by those in lower British social brackets, and the view of this by the guardians of social control, who wanted less drunkenness to guarantee a hard-working labor force.
		In a relatively short period, in any case, the gin craze ran its course, and gin consumption either disappeared as a major social phenomenon, or was integrated into the English drinking scene.
	www.peele.net /bookstore/index01.html (326 words)

	History of Gin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		English gin became very popular after 1690, when the government tried to make a market for low-grade corn unsuitable for brewing.
		Despite all the evidence that the 'free gin' policy had failed, the government did not act immediately.
		As a result, in 1743 the government loosened the restrictions of the earlier law and passed acts that permitted the gin-shops to abide by the same rules as the ale-houses.
	www.umich.edu /~ece/student_projects/drink/gin.htm (443 words)

	ArtScope.net: Hogarth: A Life and a World
		With Beer Street and Gin Lane Hogarth helped Fielding's cause, but he also muscled in, powerfully and deliberately, on the way the city and its vices were now being portrayed in the prints, asserting himself once more as the master in his field...
		In the two-print set Beer Street and Gin Lane, he contrasted the healthfulness of beer with the devastating effects, both social and personal, of that cheaply-distilled anesthetic, gin.
		The angle of the undertaker's board, a coffin on a gibbet-like pole, is echoed by the sight of the hanging man, dangling in the ruins of his house.
	www.artscope.net /VAREVIEWS/hogarth0403.shtml (1128 words)

	Gin and Tonic Sorbet
		Gin rocketed to popularity in London in the 1700s after excise taxes on beer doubled and farmers were able to get rid of their excess corn to the burgeoning gin trade.
		Gin tends to be a love it or leave it drink these days.
		Combine with the gin and tonic and the citrus juice and zest.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/kiwi_kitchen/99165 (375 words)

	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Gin, which had recently been introduced to England from the Netherlands, was increasingly becoming the true opiate of the masses.
		William Hogarth, whose etchings frequently took on a moralistic tone, reveals the upper-class attitude toward the liquor in his artwork, Gin Lane, which features a half-naked drunken woman oblivious to her child, who is falling head first to the ground out of her arms.
		For his parents, the call of the gin mills was stronger than their dislike of cold, and one evening they went out and left Sweeney Todd alone at home.
	www.crimelibrary.com /serial_killers/weird/todd/world_3.html (1225 words)

	Urban Development and Environmental Change
		Famous for his paintings, Hogarth's engravings are even more paramount: the imagery from The Harlot's Progress, Marriage a la Mode, The Four Stages of Cruelty, Gin Lane and a host of others are crucial to an understanding of eighteenth century art and culture.
		Gin Lane is arguably Hogarth's most famous work of engraved art.
		Along with its companion, Beer Street, Gin Lane addressed a very real problem in mid eighteenth century England -- the abuse of spirits by the working classes and the poor.
	www.arts.gla.ac.uk /History/Modern/Level1/urban.htm (1257 words)

	The Claremont Institute: A Trip Down Gin Lane
		Gin is the new tequila, which just a year or two ago was the new vodka.
		William Hogarth immortalized gin's status as a low-class drink in 1751 with his etching "Gin Lane"
		Sapphire may well be the queen of gins, ideally suited for the king of cocktails.
	www.claremont.org /writings/crb/spring2001/boychuk.html?FORMAT=print (1114 words)

	markgamon.blog: Gin Lane and Beer Alley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Back in the eighteenth century, cheap gin was quite rightly identified as the root of a social problem - and legislated against.
		Keep tyre, and kerb, and Gill (you know, I had someone treat me as if I were stupid today when I asked her if she spelt her name with a G or a J--and she was British).
		When gin was mother's ruin, that got the whole WCTU thing going, didn't it; perhaps the New Age Temperance Union will emerge.
	markgamon.blogspot.com /2004/07/gin-lane-and-beer-alley.html (2027 words)

	Castle Craig Clinic: Stressed drinkers seek solace in Gin Lane again (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Consumption of whisky and gin is on the highest upward curve since the 1870s, according to economic history professor John Chartres, who is researching the heyday of British distilling in the 18th century.
		The artist William Hogarth was enlisted to etch the equivalent of Department of Health posters comparing the nightmare world of Gin Lane to the cheery Beer Street, where only the pawnbrokers shop is falling down.
		Prof Chartres said 18th century conditions, including the same price for a pint of gin and a pint of beer, were a thing of the past, but the social consequences of Britain's latest alcohol peak were unpredictable.
	www.castlecraig.co.uk /aboutus/ginlane.htm (368 words)

	Gin Lane (Gin Lane) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Gin Lane (Gin Lane) Review: This book really doesn't have much of a plot--much less than others in Brady's Hamptons series, but it is still interesting.
		It's the story of an offensive radio personality who has come to ultra-snobby Gin Lane and the various attempts to kill him.
		Gin Lane (Gin Lane) Review: This book is as shallow, pretentious, and boring as the characters it portrays.
	www.textkit.com /0_0312967063.html (168 words)

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