We Can Learn Alot From Our Forefathers-Especially How to Drink

I thought myself and my buddies had done some stupid things drinking wise my last year or two of college. My biggest mistake was drinking a bottle of Cisco and a bottle of Nighttrain, and losing my motor skills, and running into a garage door (not in a car I mean actually running into a door) Thankfully I don't do that anymore. However thanks to an article I stumbled upon on CNN I know now that kids today don't know how to drink. Here are the greatest historical drinkers ever. I'm not even including the Boston Tea Party cause you know they were hammerred. 1. Admiral Edward Russell's 17th-Century throwdown: The good Admiral threw the largest cocktail party ever. The drink of choice was "a mixture that included 250 gallons of brandy, 125 gallons of Malaga wine, 1,400 pounds of sugar, 2,500 lemons, 20 gallons of lime juice, and 5 pounds of nutmeg." To top that it was served in a huge fountain that had bartenders paddling around in it to serve it. Unfortunately they could only work in 15 minute shifts or they would pass out from the fumes. They took a week to drink the fountain dry. 2. The London Brew of 1814: Meux's Horse Shoe Brewery built a vat that was large enough to have 200 people eat dinner in it. After dinner they filled it with 4000 barrels of beer. Sadly the vat wasn't built well and it ruptured. This caused other vats to break and a Tsunami of 1.2 million gallons of beer raced out into the city "caving in two buildings and killing nine people by means of "drowning, injury, poisoning by the porter fumes, or drunkenness." But it didn't end there as tons of Londoners raced out onto the street to drink directly off of it, so the Rescuers couldn't get to those in need. 3. The worst aftertaste in history: To preserve the the body of British Admiral Horatio Nelson he was stuffed in a vat of Rum. When the body got home they opened the vat to find it was empty. Apparently the crew couldn't go the trip without its rum so they decided to drink it anyway. Check out the original article to see a couple more.