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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.”

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.”

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Plymouth Navy Strength gin is 57% Alcohol by Volume (the normal Plymouth is 41.2% ABV). As Plymouth was the official gin of the Royal Navy for two hundred years, it had to be of a high enough proof that, if spilt on gunpowder, the powder would still ignite.
That is your must-know thing of the day. Courtesy 12 Bottle Bar.

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Women and alcohol

Here is the abstract of a new paper, “Women or Wine, Monogamy and Alcohol” (via Tyler Cowen):

Intriguingly, across the world the main social groups which practice polygyny do not consume alcohol. We investigate whether there is a correlation between alcohol consumption and polygynous/monogamous arrangements, both over time and across cultures. Historically, we find a correlation between the shift from polygyny to monogamy and the growth of alcohol consumption. Cross-culturally we also find that monogamous societies consume more alcohol than polygynous societies in the preindustrial world. We provide a series of possible explanations to explain the positive correlation between monogamy and alcohol consumption over time and across societies.

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