Ask your Tavernkeeper

Perhaps its just that sort of week for me but its definitely 5:00 HERE so here are some terms to take with you to your local watering hole to show you understand the drinking habits of we merry 18th Century barmen…

• Bene Bowse — good beer, or other strong liquor
• Bingo — brandy or other spirituous liquor
• Black Strap –“bene carlo” or port wine
• Bristol Milk — sherry, particularly when drunk in the morning
• Calibogus — rum mixed with spruce beer – a truly American beverage
• Cool Nantz — brandy
• Doctor — milk or cream with a little rum and some nutmeg (add eggs for eggnog!)
• Flip –small beer, brandy and sugar (often adding a raw egg)
• Freeze — small (low ABV) hard cyder
• Fuddle — any alcoholic drink or cocktail
• Hearts Ease — gin
• Huckle My Butt — heated beer, egg and brandy
• Pharoah — strong malt liquor (like an abby triple)
• Stewed Quaker — burned rum with a piece of butter — an American remedy for the common cold
• Toddy — tea and sugar with a gil of whiskey

Sláinte…