Kapil Mohan, the mastermind behind famous rum brand Old Monk, passed away at the age of 88.
Kapil, who was the chairman and managing director of Mohan Meakin, the first known brewery in India, had a fatal cardiac arrest at his residence in Ghaziabad.
He was also a recipient of the Vishisht Seva Medal and a brigadier at the time of his retirement from the Indian Armed Forces.
Launched in 1954, Old Monk was the largest selling dark rum in the world for a long time. Recently, however, the sales had dropped and Old Monk saw a 54 per cent decline in sales between 2010-14. This was about a quarter of the sales it had had in the 1960s.
Mohan was honored by the Government of India, in 2010, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of the Padma Shri.
