No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.
By the time of the Civil War, there were many kinds of apples growing across the United States, but most of them didn't taste very good, and as a rule, people didn't eat them. Cider was cheaper to make than beer, and many settlers believed fermented drinks were safer than water. Everyone drank hard cider.
No brothers shall make, buy, sell, or use, as a beverage, any spirituous or Malt Liquors, Wine, or Cider.
For us in Asia, fermented, bubbly, creamy things are just the norm.
Solace? That's why God made fermented beverages and the blues.
Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.
I don't love mixed drinks.
I know a lot about health, wellness, and nutrition. I make my own kombucha. I'm clumsy.
