The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition

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a reliable narrative of early America. Americans drunk great quantities of alcohol. The beverages that the Americans drunk we mostly distilled liquors, commonly known as spirits, whiskey, rum, gin, and brandy. All of those, liquors were made up of 45 percent of alcohol. The Americans even got drunk off hard cider. They drunk more hard cider then they drunk rum.

The first problem that his conclusions face is that scarce amount of statistical data from the colonial era onwards. Many women had to drink alcohol-based medicines for their health. Eastern ladies drank in mixed company at social dinners, suppers, and evening parties and when they were at pioneer dances, the whisky bottles were passed around from mouth to mouth. White males were taught to drink as children, even as babies.

Although, these surveys give a good window into the amount of alcohol in early America by looking at how much was produced and how much of it was sold but, it couldn’t be used to document ...

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