The ‘1776 diet’: Colonists’ alcohol consumption was ‘staggering,’ and historians want you to know

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“They were very open about how much they were drinking,” he said.

George Washington wrote a recipe for “small beer” in a journal he kept as a young colonel in charge of the Virginia militia during the Seven Years’ War, Fox News Digital previously reported. The New York Public Library houses the journal.

“Small beer,” according to the library,continue reading …