Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 "It Was Being Too Abstemious That Brought This Sickness upon Me": Alcoholic Beverage Consumption in the Early Chesapeake -- 2 "They Will be Adjudged by Their Drinke, What Kind of Housewives They Are": Gender, Technology, and Household Cidering in England and the Chesapeake, 1690 to 1760 -- 3 "This Drink Cannot Be Kept During the Summer": Large Planters, Science, and Community Networks in the Early Eighteenth Century -- 4 "Anne Howard . . . Will Take in Gentlemen": White Middling Women and the Tavernkeeping Trade in Colonial Virginia -- 5 "Ladys Here All Go to Market to Supply Their Pantry": Alcohol for Sale, 1760 to 1776 -- 6 "Every Man His Own Distiller": Technology, the American Revolution, and the Masculinization of Alcohol Production in the Late Eighteenth Century -- 7 "He Is Much Addicted to Strong Drinke": The Problem of Alcohol -- Conclusion -- A Few Recipes -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.