For those interested, I highly recommend The Alcoholic Republic (1979) which had an honored place on my college bookshelf[1]. The colonists' drink of choice was

For those interested, I highly recommend The Alcoholic Republic (1979) which had an honored place on my college bookshelf[1]. The colonists' drink of choice was cider -- 18 gallons per year per person during the Revolution. I've made available his table on alcohol consumption from 1770-1970, showing that pure alcohol consumption peaked at 3.9 gallons in 1830 and has been rising steadily since Prohibition[2]. [1] http://bit.ly/the-alcoholic-republic http://bit.ly/the-alcoholic-republic [2] http://imgur.com/lTeKNUA http://imgur.com/lTeKNUA