On 18 December 1917, the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution was put forward in the United States Senate, stipulating a federal ban on the production, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages. Upon its enforcement in
Ryosuke Yokoe
Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the increasing opposition by the various temperance movements across the Western world towards the excessive consumption of alcohol coincided with the project to seek out alternative social beverages. Though