Kudos to Sarah Lohman of Four Pounds Flour for posting this graph “from The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition by W.J. Rorabaugh, an analysis of how totally trashed we were in Colonial times”. Sometimes the past was more fun. FIVE GALLONS!
By the way, I will be keeping an eye on her blog tomorrow, and you should too:
“Tomorrow, I plan to drink the quantity of alcohol commonly consumed during the course of an average day in Colonial America. I plan to imbibe beverages appropriate to the time period: bitters, hard cider, brandy, whiskey and rum; served up in period appropriate drinks. And I’m going to follow the schedule of a Colonial drinker, from an “eye-opener” before breakfast, to a tankard of hard cider beside the fire at night.”
