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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...

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