Old provisional

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Alter Provisor is a herbal liqueur that was originally produced and sold in the Ratsapotheke in Celle , Lower Saxony .

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The herbal liqueur contains 50 % alcohol by volume and 10% sugar as well as alcoholic extracts from Asian herbs and local medicinal plants, which give it a bitter taste.

history

The term provisional was used to describe a pharmacist or first assistant who supervised a pharmacy. The recipe of the old provision is based on an aqua vitae (German: water of life) from a recipe book of the pharmacist Otto Kaiser, who ran the Rottmannsche Apotheke at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1910 the pharmacy was renamed the Ratsapotheke and taken over by Carl Greve, who first produced the liqueur in large quantities. The herbal liqueur was named Alter Provisor in 1980 by Jost Greve, who also had it trademarked and last produced the herbal liqueur from 1973 to 2013. In January 2014, the Ratsapotheke was closed in its 165th year. The brand was taken over by Greve Provisor UG, which initially had the old Provisor produced in the Albtor pharmacy in Reutlingen. Since August 2014, the old provisional has been manufactured again in Northern Germany. In November 2014, a specialist shop called Alter Provisor opened in a restored half-timbered building in Celle .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ alter-provisor.de: History ( Memento of 15 May 2015, Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Christoph Zimmer: Light houses and shop windows selected ( Memento from December 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b "Alter Provisor" - IHK winner continues herbal liqueur tradition , Celle Heute, November 21, 2014
  4. ^ Deutsche Apothekerzeitung , Vol. 25, 1910, p. 852
  5. ↑ Stefanie Dettmar: Off for Celler Ratsapotheke at the end of the year ( Memento from December 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Rats-Apotheke closes in its 165th year - “Alter Provisor” should stay , Celle Today, December 28, 2013
  7. ↑ companies , alterprovisor.de
  8. ↑ Half-timbered discussion : 'Bergstrasse 12 in Celle' , Kulturkreis Fachwerk im Celler Land, May 16, 2014
  9. ↑ Doris Hennies: Store opening with "old provisional" in Celle ( Memento from December 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive )