CCSI Cork Crowncap Database - Brewer/Bottler
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 Brewer/bottler #10255 | | | | | | | | | | | Extra info | Felice Bisleri (30 November 1851- 17 September 1921) was an Italian businessman, inventor and chemist. He was born in Verolanuova near Brescia and established the Felice Bisleri & Co. chemical laboratory in Milan, developing the successful "Ferro-China Bisleri", an amaro (drink) made as an alcohol infusion of cinchona bark, herbs, and iron salts. The company also made the wellselling "Nocera Umbra" mineral water named after Nocera Umbra (1894), as well as the "Esanofele", a chemical based on quinine, iron and arsenic to combat malaria (1899).
Bisleri died in San Pellegrino. The Via Felice Bisleri in Milano is named after him. The Bisleri mineral water brand still exists, having been sold to India's industry in the 1969. |
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