Bro uk I’m paying £4.50 (around $5.50) for a pint of beer. For a night out you need to remortgage your home 
Don’t get me started with the devil’s lettuce. 
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Haha, yeah try 6.50 12 oz bottles…
Ok
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Yeah bottles cost more over here than a pint does so likely around about the same hence why I drink pints. More crazy liquid for less money 
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The 19th cent. French traveller and writer Alexis de Tocqueville wrote something like “Americans drink from sunup to sunup.” We’ve always had a problem with booze as a country, and it doesn’t get nearly enough attention; it was interesting commentary that (at least in NY) liquor stores never closed under lockdown. I suspect in the short term there would be an uptick in withdrawl-fueled violence.
I used to make moonshine with a hacky 5gallon pot still I made - loved it, but in the amounts that I like it would put me in an early grave. Just give me the whole bottle or nothing at all…I really don’t touch the stuff anymore.
No doubt prohibition increased the overall volume of distilled booze for the practical reasons you note, but distillation goes waaaay back in our history. The “Whiskey Rebellion” in G.Washington’s presidency is only one example. He had is own quite massive (slave run) distillery.
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You folks might find this crazy, but I read a study where they recommend 3 GALLONS of ALCOHOL a day, at least, for those with special metabolism.
If I remember correctly, women mostly have the right metabolism for alcohol consumption. Something most men don’t have.
Next week is American craft beer week! No wait, it’s this week.
I used to get Stella Artoiss that were infused with marijuana, straight from the brewery 
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Curious question. Hmmmmmm🤔
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I also think that way 
History was always writen by the winners so lets say that could be totaly different that it was taught to us 
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Egyptians actually didn’t boil their wort for brewing, it’s one of the things that’s very different from how we make it now. Now we boil grains and malt, they started with bread:
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Yeah i once read that back in the 19th century. They have big problem with alcohol. People were drinking like crazy… biggest problem were factories workers. And they solve the problem with introdusing coffe breaks. So they stop drinking buzze during the brakes and start drinking coffe 
Thats why coffe is now so popular 
dont know if thats true but it could be
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Here is was considered an essential service. Whether for entertainment or for medical anti-withdrawal reasons I’ll leave up to you.
Cannabis stores stayed open too.
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The only historical thing I can think of that comes close would be an 18th century British sailor.
My great, great, great, great one more great grandad. 
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Interesting you say that Kabuddha. I hav’nt had no alcohol in 20 years. An i an many others would probably say it dont look like ive aged much at all.
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I have a direct decendant who served in the Navy during the battle of Trafalgar. Also another one who was a cavalry Sargent at the battle of Waterloo.
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I believe the Sumerians (Sugagi) has the upper hand in beer production… to the point of salting the earth bare.
What a time we live in to be able to read cuneiform!
Which is fun:
Dr. Bowden is my go-to, and I have all his books.
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I’ve got a copy of Gilgamesh somewhere…
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I drink Chimay when I can find them…I drink the ones that come in a wine bottle and its corked…back in the day the monks brewed/drank this brew.
Chimay Brewery is a brewery at Scourmont Abbey, a Trappist monastery in Chimay, Hainaut, Belgium, one of the thirteen breweries worldwide that produce Trappist beer…Chimay beers, today enjoyed well beyond our borders, are still brewed there, under supervision of the monks.
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I will have to see if I can find that here, probably not 
Chimay is pretty ubiquitous. When I used to drink I enjoyed a nice trippel.
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The trouble with gov liquor commissions here, is they only stock stuff that sells a lot. I have lots of drinks I find get it once or twice and then its gone because no one else likes it lol.
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