18. The Puritans had a pub by/near their churches. During breaks in the all day worship, which was common for all Christians back in the day, they would quench their thirst and go back for some more worship.
Interesting, but hardly hilarious...
Party on, historians!
#6 - if you’re going on a long sea voyage with 17th-century food storage technology, you’re going to take your water in the form of wine/beer to make sure it doesn’t cultivate nasty microbes (the alcohol killing off anything that would otherwise grow in water). Wine/beer in addition are, well, basically liquid fruit & bread - a lot easier to store & transport (weight aside) in liquid form than trying to keep from rotting on shelves. Alcoholic side effects, well, gosh darn.
If you thought we were the first generation who liked to get our drink onWhy would anyone think such a thing? Is the generation referred to therein that much dumbed down now?
Another episode of Drunk History.
look up ‘churchill’s hiccup’, or ‘winston’s hiccup’. i’m sure most of southern jordan knows that story
beer was preferred aboard ship not necessarily because of its effects, but because water would go bad and sicken the crew after a voyage of even moderate length.
This is one of my favorite pieces of alcohol history:
“Indeed, we still have available the bar tab from a 1787 farewell party in Philadelphia for George Washington just days before the framers signed off on the Constitution. According to the bill preserved from the evening, the 55 attendees drank 54 bottles of Madeira, 60 bottles of claret, eight of whiskey, 22 of porter, eight of hard cider, 12 of beer, and seven bowls of alcoholic punch.”
Alcohol is a solution. Just ask any chemist.
Hilarious? I don’t think so. A bunch of made up, inacurate crap is more like it.
Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.
John 2:10
It also began the famous line: Hold me mug and watch this!......................
We all know beer created civilization.
The “tons of booze” stories are misleading because low-alcohol beer was used in place of water, since the alcohol minimized bacteria. Low-alcohol beer simply safer than water for drinking.
The guys aboard the Mayflower were not Puritans. They were either Separatists or Church of England. Not a Puritan to be found.
And water tended to go bad sitting in wooden barrels in the hold of the ship. Sailing with only water on board for a long voyage in those days was a good way to arrive with a true skeleton crew.
Considering the very bad history in this one statement I would take all the others with a king sized grain of salt.
With all that grain in the pyramids, I’m not surprised that they had plenty to brew.
The founding fathers were buzzed pretty much all the time.