https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/the-surprising-drinking-habits-of-our-founding-fathers
Though he may have been the most temperate among his fellow Founders, Ben Franklin said, “Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy.” A brewer and distiller in his own right, he’s also famous for coming up with The Drinker’s Dictionary, over 200 euphemisms for getting tore up. Among my favorites: “Piss’d in the Brook,” “Wamble Crop’d,” and “Been too free with Sir John Strawberry.”
Among the many lines on his resumé, one of them was brewer. Specifically, Sam Adams was a maltster in his father’s brewery, the guy who made the malts that would eventually become beer. He was also a master politician, and is credited with organizing the Revolution from inside New England taverns by getting would-be Minute Men mad as hell over the high price of rum.
I used to have the recipe for a Ben Franklin orange liqueur (shrub?) made with rum and oranges that took about 3-6 weeks to reach great taste, I would make it in an old (150 years?) 5 gallon whiskey jug and we would drink it during my election BBQ parties.