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What Hacker News says
- If you're interested about the booze side of things, I recommend "The Alcoholic Republic" https://www.amazon.com/Alcoholic-Republic-American-Tradition...
- For those interested, I highly recommend The Alcoholic Republic (1979) which had an honored place on my college bookshelf[1]. The colonists' drink of choice was cider -- 18 gallons per year per person during the Revolution. I've made available his table on alcohol consumption from 1770-1970, showing that pure alcohol consumption peaked at 3.9 gallons in 1830 and has been rising steadily since Prohibition[2].
- “ In his 1979 history, The Alcoholic Republic, the historian W. J. Rorabaugh painstakingly calculated the stunning amount of alcohol early Americans drank on a daily basis. In 1830, when American liquor consumption hit its all-time high, the average adult was going through more than nine gallons of spirits each year.”
I think I remember hearing a similar stat on the ken burns prohibition doc. I didn’t quite understand why it was supposed to be that much though. 9 gallons of liquor is 36 liters is roughly 100 bottles of wine equivalent per year so less than a third of a bottle of wine a day which is what 1 or 2 glasses per meal equivalent? So the question then is are people drinking liquor drinking wine on top plus cider apparently? Or is it just a lot because that’s the average and plenty of people aren’t drinking much at or at all and that makes for the right tail of the distribution to be really drinking a lot?
