December 01, 2023
In 1374 British King Edward III granted poet Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales, a gallon of wine a day for the rest of his life.
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Why Is Alcohol Measured by Proof?
If you get a bottle of vodka from your local liquor store, you’ll probably see two different numbers telling you how much alcohol it contains. The first is an alcohol by volume (ABV) percentage, which is relatively intuitive to understand: it’s the percentage of alcohol in the overall liquid and is
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