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Happy Kahlua Day! Kahlua is a coffee liqueur. Now owned by Pernod Ricard, the drink was original produced by Pedro Domecq in 1936. It's name meant 'the house of the Acolhua people'. The Acolhua are a Mesoamerican people who arrived in valley of Mexico around 1200ce. They were a sister culture of the Aztecs, Tepanec, Chalca, Xochimilca and others. Although it started out at 26%, over the years the abv has been reduced in a few times and now it sits around a more modest 16%, a move Pernod Ricard brought in to acknowledge the consumer trend of lower abv drinks....