I noticed on the History Ch. when they did the "History of Chocolet" that Coco became fashinable after the Boston Tea Party because the people didn't want to drink tea anymore and coco could be imported from S.America without having the English Tax added to it. :hmm:
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Drinking habits, then and now.
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Large scale distilling in the late colonial era primarily involved rum. Production for the 13 colonies in 1770 came to a total of over 4,800,000 gallons! Of the total, just under a million gallons were exported, the rest we drank (just over two gallons per man, woman & child). Since rum production was based on West Indian molasses, the industry was severly disrupted by the AWI & the postwar trade restrictions with Britain's Caribbean colonies. By the early 1800s, grain based whiskeys had nearly replaced rum. Bourbon appeared in Kentucky in 1784 and rapidly rose in outut. Andrew Jackson is said to have stated that he had never met a Kentuckian without a rifle, a pack of cards and a jug of whiskey. I do not have info to distinguish between cider and beer but combined comsumption of both was relatively stable at about 34 gallons a year per person over 15 between 1770 and 1795. I guess that has something to do with the term "good old days". :winking:
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Pressings from my apples will ferment out to about 6-6.5% alochol, but I add a few pounds of brown sugar and/or honey/5gal and add some champange yeast. Put on an air lock like you would for wine and I've managed 12-14% hard cider :shocked2: . At this alcohol content it will store quite well if bottled into sterile glass and kept in a cool dark place, in fact several months stitting improves it greatly :grin: .
My grandfather used to do about the same thing but on a much larger scale, he used full sized wooden barrels and would have a hellacious party where the whole barrel would be consumed, usually late winter or early spring.
The main stuff that causes hangovers is acetaldehyde, which is toxic, and the first compound that ethanol is converted to as your body metabolizes it. This in turn gets further oxidized to acetic acid. When you drink too much your body can't keep up and the acetaldehyde builds up in your system :shake:
My grandfather used to do about the same thing but on a much larger scale, he used full sized wooden barrels and would have a hellacious party where the whole barrel would be consumed, usually late winter or early spring.
The main stuff that causes hangovers is acetaldehyde, which is toxic, and the first compound that ethanol is converted to as your body metabolizes it. This in turn gets further oxidized to acetic acid. When you drink too much your body can't keep up and the acetaldehyde builds up in your system :shake:
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