America REALLY Liked Booze In The 1800’s

Paste Magazine took a look at the drinking habits of Americans since the country was formed and found that by 1830, Americans were drinking “7 gallons of ethanol a year per capita” which comes out to “the equivalent of 1.7 bottles of a standard 80-proof liquor per person, per week—nearly 90 bottles a year for every adult in the nation, even with abstainers (and there were millions of them) factored in”. To put in terms we can understand today, alcohol was the Oxy of its day.

Read more at pastemagazine.com.

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