The Story of Tonic - from a cure against the biggest killer to a big star in a Gin & Tonic

We all love a good Gin & Tonic and you may have heard the story of gin - but how well do you know the story of the tonic?

The story of Tonic starts as a deadly and brutal story - it starts with a disease that killed millions of people and with no known cure. Even the cure came with a deadly and brutal story and a story kept being brutal and cynical for many years. But the discovery of a cure also saved millions and millions of lives and had a surprising and plesant "side effect" and this "side effect" turned out to be an amazing partner with gin.

The story is filled with historic events that includes both Christopher Columbus, Kings and Popes and an Incan Empire - and it is also the story of the biggest corporate successes, that revolutionized the tonic market.

Let me give you a glimpse of all the events that let up to the moment, when we now can sit with our delicious Gin & Tonic.

The story of the tonic is a historic story!

Links:
Link to Fever-Tree (UK): https://fever-tree.com/en_GB
Link to Fever-Free (DK): https://fever-tree.com/da_DK
Link to Erasmus Bond: http://erasmus-bond.be/

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:01 Malaria - the killer parasite
02:32 The fall of Rome
03:39 The fall of the Incan Empire
05:04 The bark that saved millions of lives
08:09 The tool of Imperialism
09:59 The invention of Tonic
12:54 Fever-Tree - the start of a tonic revolution
14:40 Outtro