1From John Adams to Vine Utley, 10 September 1819 (Adams Papers)
When I was in Europe, that is in France and Holland, I followed my system as well as I could—my beverage being the light Wines of France well soaked in water; because Beer, and Cider, were not to be had.—
2From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 17 July 1818 (Adams Papers)
...thence being made in sugar, cotton, wool, tobacco, and such like commodities, which they first receive from some other of his Majesty’s plantations in barter for dry cod fish, salt machrel, beef, pork, bread, beer, flour,
3From John Adams to Nathaniel Gorham, 28 January 1817 (Adams Papers)
Chymists! Pursue your Experiments with indefatigable Ardour and perseverance. Give Us the best possible Bread Butter and Cheese, Wine Beer and Cyder, Houses Ships and Steamboats, Gardens Orchards Fields, not to mention Cloths or Cooks. If your Investigations lead Accidentally to any deep discovery, rejoice, and cry Eureka! But never institute any Experiment with a View...
4From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 13 November 1816 (Adams Papers)
...Fellow, was perpetually teizing me about my Pedigree; I told him, I knew nothing about it; but that I was an Englishman of King Charles the firsts days; that I was made of English Beer, for my Ancestors had been Maltsers from the Beginning in America, Maltsers! Said Sir John, “I know what that means” there is nothing more characteristick of an English Country Gentleman. Walking one day...
5From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 12 October 1812 (Adams Papers)
...Pole was drawn to its appointed Place on the Summit of the Hill by the help of Savages males and females, with Sound of Guns Drums, Pistols and other Instruments of Musick. A Barrel of excellent Beer was brewed, and a Case of Bottles, (of Brandy I Suppose) with other good Chear, and English Men and Indians Sannups and Squaws, danced and sang and revelled round the Maypole till Bacchus and...
6John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 12 October 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Guns Drums, Pistols and other Instruments of Musick. A Barrel of excellent Beer was brewed, and a Case of Bottles, (of Brandy I Suppose) with other good Chear, and English Men and Indians Sannups and Squaws, danced and Sang and revelled
7From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 19 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
...Value of it: but I Should as Soon think of asking them to Sell me two Pounds of thier Flesh like Shylock. On thier first Settlement they erected a Malthouse pro more Anglicano, which converted Barley into Beer for the whole Town and Neighbourhood. Many a time when I was a little Boy have I carried Barley for my Father to be malted by my Great Uncle, Captain and Deacon Peter Adams, who used...
8From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 10 April 1810 (Adams Papers)
Amsterdam, October 18, 1781—wrote to Dr. Franklin: “Thomas Beer, with his wife and two small children came to my house this forenoon, and presented me a letter from Mr Coffin, of Dunkirk, of the second of October, recommending him to me as a person who had... ...excellency to Mr. Coffin of the 22d of August, advising Beer to go to Holland where your excellency imagined there was great demand...Beer
9From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 11 February 1810 (Adams Papers)
Are not Doctors Lawyers Priests, Merchants, Armies Navies, Commerce Manufactures Fisheries, Wheat Rye Barley Oats, Buckwheat, Wine Oyl Cyder Beer Punch Flip, Slings Drams, Shirts Sheets, Wool and Silk all the Curses of the Fall of Man? Yes every one of them: as much as Government, Jails Stocks and Whipping Posts. Why Should We loose ourselves...
10From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 23 June 1807 (Adams Papers)
...Poet, discarded by his Father from all the Apartments in his House but his Kitchen, who was frequently Seen drunk and asleep in the Streets, was hired from time to time, with Potts of Strong Beer, by Andrew Brown, to Step aside into a Closet in his House and write virulent Libells against me, for the Philadelphia Gazette. It was not long before this insolent Sott, drank himself into his...