Perseverance of the Saints

The lovely medium-roast beverage that sobered Europe is now available to keep you from stumbling... out the door. Gluten NO Origin Brazilian, Costa Rica, Ethiopian Organic NO Roast Medium Source Multi-Source   What did you have for breakfast?  How bout 3-4 stout ales? Or beer mixed with eggs and poured over bread? Before 1700, the average European was drinking what amounts to a 12 pack of high gravity beer... everyday.  This may sound appealing at first... but just try it and see how your day goes.  The same goes for your wife and children. This general fog of alcoholism was pretty much the state of things until coffee came rampaging into London around 1650, and to the rest of Europe within a century. I don't think it's a coincidence that the European Renaissance and dare I say, Puritan thought, were coming to a fever pitch in Europe at the same time coffee houses were springing up.  When our forebears stopped drinking beer soup and wine for breakfast, it's astounding wha