Hans-Jürgen Krackher and Christian Warnecke began sharing stories at a gathering of German glass collectors. Driven by a spirit of discovery, the “spiritschweppes fizzy family”—a global community of curious treasure hunters, excavators, collectors, and historians—has been growing ever since. Germany is the birthplace of Jacob Schweppe (born March 16, 1740, in Witzenhausen; died November 18, 1821, in what is now Geneva). A talented watchmaker with an insatiable spirit of inquiry and entrepreneurship, Schweppe patented the industrial production of soda in 1783 using the “Geneva system,” thereby laying the groundwork for the global concept of the soft drink as a source of mental refreshment. www.hjktext.de