History of HorlicksHorlicks the malted beverage was invented by two English brother James and William Horlick, inhabitants of Ruardean west of Cinderford.
The Malted Milk was patented in 1883, first intended as an infant food: it was later renamed ‘Horlicks’, and a large factory was built for its English production at Slough between 1906 and 1908.
James Horlick, an English pharmacist who had worked in England, came to United States in 1875 at the urging of his brother, William Horlick who wished to manufacture a Liebig-type infant food.
Though they were successful, James Horlick quickly recognized the major drawback in their product: bad milk could spoil its usefulness.
He developed a new product that had “for its object, first to provide a non-farinaceous highly nutritious food for infant and invalids by combining the nutritive parts of cereal with milk; and secondly, to render such food free from all souring tendency irrespective of the climate or state of the atmosphere to which it may be subjected and yet of such a nature as to be readily soluble in water.
William was granted a U.S patented for the first malted malt drink powder that could be mixed with hot water.
The beverage was said to promote sleep when drunk at bedtime.
History of Horlicks