"Cherrycoke" sounds a bit like a scrambled version of "Cherokee" to me.

[Elisabeth Romberg]

The fact that this coke stuff was first put into practice in Derbyshire and used for roasting malt «an alteration all England admired» - (one imagines Dixon to be one of them), coke «allowed for a lighter roast»: pale ale! - is intuitively very convincing as possible source of inspiration for the name. I like


> 6. jan. 2015 kl. 14.40 skrev David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
> 
> Charry coke?
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coke_%28fuel%29 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coke_%28fuel%29>
> 
> Coke is a fuel with few impurities and a high carbon <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon> content, usually made fromcoal <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal>. It is the solid carbonaceous <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon> material derived from destructive distillation <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destructive_distillation> of low-ash, low-sulfur bituminous coal <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bituminous_coal>. Cokes made from coal are grey, hard, andporous <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porous>. While coke can be formed naturally, the commonly used form is man-made. The form known as petroleum coke <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_coke>, or pet coke, is derived from oil refinery coker units or other cracking processes.
> 
> Great Britain[edit <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coke_(fuel)&action=edit&section=3>]
> In 1589 a patent was granted to Thomas Proctor and William Peterson for making iron and steel and melting lead with "earth-coal, sea-coal, turf, and peat". The patent contains a distinct allusion to the preparation of coal by "cooking". In 1590 a patent was granted to the Dean of York <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_of_York> to "purify pit-coal and free it from its offensive smell".[3] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coke_%28fuel%29#cite_note-3> In 1620 a patent was granted to a company composed of William St. John and other knights, mentioning the use of coke in smelting ores and manufacturing metals. In 1627 a patent was granted to Sir John Hacket and Octavius de Strada for a method of rendering sea-coal and pit-coal as useful as charcoal for burning in houses, without offense by smell or smoke.[4] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coke_%28fuel%29#cite_note-Special_reports-4>
> In 1603 Hugh Plat <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Plat> suggested that coal might be charred in a manner analogous to the way charcoal <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charcoal> is produced from wood. This process was not put into practice until 1642, when coke was used for roasting malt <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malt> in Derbyshire <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derbyshire>; previously, brewers had used wood, as uncoked coal cannot be used in brewing because its sulfurous fumes would impart a foul taste to the beer <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer>.[5] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coke_%28fuel%29#cite_note-5> It was considered an improvement in quality, and brought about an "alteration which all England admired"—the coke process allowed for a lighter roast of the malt, leading to the creation of what by the end of the 17th century was called pale ale <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_ale>.[4] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coke_%28fuel%29#cite_note-Special_reports-4>
> 
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 4:46 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com <mailto:jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>> wrote:
> I'm sure it means nothing, but I still wanted to throw it into the aether.
> 
> MT
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