For my google Ngram, I chose to do the three words whiskey, gin and vodka. I thought it would be very interesting to compare three different types of alcohol and how they were relevant and utilized in the time period of 1800-1900. Whiskey and gin are both types of alcohol, therefore they were extremely popular and used on a daily basis in the Victorian age, as being drunk was a normality during this time period. Gin was the most popular and wide spread alcohol of choice until around 1888, when whiskey started to become the front runner and became more popular than gin.  In the 1800’s it started to become popular to use grain for distilling spirits. This means that grains were so abundant that they realized they could make alcohol by a chemical process by using the grain. This is why gin was so popular for so many years. Gin is made from a grain. But, when corn started to become very popular, another type of alcohol that could be made form corn also became popular, this was whiskey.
I also looked at vodka. I thought it would be very interesting to see in comparison between whiskey and gin, which are corn and grain based and vodka, which is also grain based but involves a different distilling process and that it also originates from Russia. It was not until 1880 that vodka started to become apparent. This early in history, we were not trading with Russia yet, bu towards the end of the 1800’s we can see that because vodka started to become popular in the Victorian age, that foreign trading had begun.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=whiskey%2Cgin%2Cvodka&year_start=1800&year_end=1900&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cwhiskey%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cgin%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cvodka%3B%2Cc0