How drinking in bars fueled American independence

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During Benjamin Franklin’s brief stay in London as a young man, he watched his fellow laborers at a printing shop drink beer with every meal, making them slow to their work and draining their pay.

“I thought it a detestable custom,” Franklin tut-tutted in his autobiography. “I drank only water.”…

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