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To: Ish who wrote (136000)	6/8/2004 5:43:51 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I get sleepy when I drink. No idea how people can drink and continue with their daily affairs. I was surprised to read how much Americans drank during the Colonial era, it's a miracle they survived, much less built a civilization. Small beer with breakfast, or cider. Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in the City Tavern while drinking pints of madeira. I couldn't write like that sober. I've been researching the history of booze in America because I had an idea of making grappa, or an American version, Virginia version, actually, some do make it in California. You make it from the leftover grapes after the wine is done fermenting. But it's an acquired taste, not smooth like brandy or sweet like what most people prefer. Definitely puts hair on your chest. In Europe, the winemakers save it for themselves and put it in their coffee on cold days, helps give them the energy to work in the cold. In some ways, the history of alcohol IS the history of modern man. They've found alembics in the ruins of the very first cities in the Middle East and Asia, and brew pits in the very earliest settlements in Europe.