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Man Does Not Live on Beer Alone – 18th Century Cocktails

We all know the Sugar Trade and Rum fueled the Boston and Philadelphia economies in the 1760’s.  There is no denying that our founding fathers frequently enjoyed a stiff drink.  George Washington owned a distillery that produced rye. Thomas Jefferson treasured his French wines. Even the staid and ultraconservative John Adams had a gill of …

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Basic Colonial Brewing #12 — Assessing Quantities

Last week I introduced the “art” of brewing in the 18th Century and discussed how this differs from the modern engineering approach we take today.  Like many other tasks, technology has changed the nature of the work freeing us from the complexity of managing certain things but also removing a certain experiential nature to the …

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