Many medicines taste bitter because they contain alkaloid (baselike) compounds. Quinine, caffeine, and the antihistamines are familiar examples.

The appearance, yield, storability, and mechanical harvestability are seriously affected.

But the brewery that had taken it over had decided to Tudorise it with fake plastic beams, uncomfortable settles and things like brass bedpans which the new owners fondly believed to be some sort of cooking equipment.

It took a minute to crack the lock, three minutes to crack the security system, and about twenty minutes to crack the safe.