When Benjamin Franklin was a young man, he worked in England at a printing shop. The other pressmen called him "water American" because he would drink water during the work day, whereas all of them would drink very strong beers because they thought it made them stronger.

Drunk enough to add Rs to the end of random words until it just becomes part of the accent

at the height of the Gin Craze the average per capita gin intake was something like two pints a week