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How's Your Drink?
Title: How's Your Drink?
Author: Eric Felten
Author: Eric Felten
Publisher: Surrey Books
On the evening of Wedensday, April 7, 1779, Samuel Johnson went to dinner at the house of Sir Joshua Reynolds; soon, according to his biographer, James Boswell, he was haranguing the guests "upon the qualities of different liquors." Offered a glass of claret, Johnson bellowed, "Poor stuff! No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men; but he who aspires to be a hero," he said with a smile, "must drink brandy."