John Adams

John and Abigail exchange letters about all of her faults.


John Adams, A Liberal Congregationalist

8. Hard Cider Fueled John Adams

Washington’s vice president was an even more ardent hard cider enthusiast. Adams was strict about having an apple a day, and cider was his preferred way to get it. Before he settled in to work on running the country or helping gain independence, Adams kick-started each day by draining a tankard of hard cider — he once mused of this daily ritual, “It seems to do me good.” Adams became a cider devotee as a college student and later reminisced about his student days of throwing back cider: “I shall never forget, how refreshing and salubrious we found it, hard as it often was.”