Cronk Rules Everything

Until today, I've never heard of Cronk, and you likely haven't either. It was a popular soda drink or light beer from the 19th century. It hasn't been made in 120 years, but a Calgary brewery is reviving it from the original recipe. 

A chance discovery in a newspaper archive has left drinkers in Canada and beyond salivating at the prospect of – finally – getting their hands on some Cronk.

More than a century after it was last consumed, beverage connoisseurs will soon be able to enjoy Dr Cronk’s Compound Sarsaparilla Beer, after internet sleuths and real-world brewers recovered a drink that was once wildly popular across North America but vanished into obscurity.

The 2020 Cronk revival can be traced back to the university researcher Paul Fairie, who recently tweeted about a series of bizarre adverts he had found in an 1882 copy of the Calgary Herald.

Embedded in the columns of newsprint, the copy was blunt and simple:

Buy Cronk.

Cronk is good.

Cronk is the drink.

I wonder if the LCBO will pick it up if it proves as popular as the original? 

The book that contains the recipe, The Handbook of Practical Receipts, or Useful Hints in Everyday Life is quite a read. There are remedies for things I've never heard of as well as many recipes.