Cronk, the Long-Lost Beverage Revived Thanks to Twitter

June 29, 2020

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Source: Solarina Ho, ctvnews.ca June 29, 2020

Thanks to Cold Garden, a Calgary micro-brewery, the world is about to rediscover what this long-lost drink tastes like.

TORONTO — It’s got sassafras, sarsaparilla, hops, camomile, cinnamon and ginger, but it will be a little while before anyone knows what “Cronk” — a mystery drink from over a hundred years ago — will taste like.

It began as just another tweet about a series of curious old ads in the Calgary Herald that Paul Fairie stumbled across: Squeezed in between single-paragraph local news briefs and stories were words like, “Cronk”, “Dr. Cronk”, “Cronk is good”, “Cronk is the drink”, and “Who said Cronk was dead?”

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