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How the Founding Fathers Got Drunk Part III: Apples

by Kate Dolan | Mar 1, 2015 | Articles, Colonial America, Food, Kate Dolan, Latest Posts, Living History

Today we usually think of apple cider as a wholesome children’s drink, but for most of the past thousand years, cider often contained as much alcohol as beer.  Thanks to wild yeast present in the air, the natural sugar in apple juice begins to ferment (turn to...

How the Founding Fathers Got Drunk Part I – The Holidays

by Kate Dolan | Dec 30, 2014 | Articles, Colonial America, Holidays, Kate Dolan, Latest Posts, Living History

The founding fathers look pretty proper and straitlaced when they’re stamped on the front of legal currency, but these guys knew how to party. Or at least, they knew how to drink. And many of them knew how to mix drinks, brew beer, distill spirits, and how to...

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