{"id":44016,"date":"2026-02-03T06:48:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T11:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=44016"},"modified":"2026-02-03T06:48:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T11:48:05","slug":"fact-check-george-washingtons-hefty-bar-tab-days-before-constitutions-signing-is-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=44016","title":{"rendered":"Fact check: George Washington&#8217;s hefty bar tab, days before Constitution&#8217;s signing, is real"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/factcheck\/2022\/01\/20\/fact-check-george-washingtons-expensive-bar-tab-real\/5947984001\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/247WallSt.com-247WS-909831-george-washington.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:220px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Records and historians indicate Washington racked up the tab, estimated to be thousands of dollars today, during the Constitutional Convention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/factcheck\/2022\/01\/20\/fact-check-george-washingtons-expensive-bar-tab-real\/5947984001\/\">Fact check: George Washington&#8217;s hefty bar tab, days before Constitution&#8217;s signing, is real<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe bar tab of a 1787 farewell party for George Washington was left intact and legible,&#8221; a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PlanetBeer1\/posts\/3107916102797492\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jan. 19 Facebook post reads<\/a>.\u00a0 &#8220;According to the bill, the Founding Fathers drank 54 bottles of Madeira, 60 bottles of Claret, 8 bottles of Whiskey, 22 bottles of Porter, 8 bottles of Hard Cider, 12 of Beer and seven bowls of Alcoholic Punch. There were only 55 attendees.\u201d<br>&#8230;<br>That would be about two bottles of wine, several shots and a few cups of punch and beer for every guest.<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Records and historians indicate Washington racked up the tab, estimated to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[50,51,2232,324,57,837],"class_list":["post-44016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-alcohol","tag-beer","tag-constitution","tag-til","tag-usa","tag-wine","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44019,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44016\/revisions\/44019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}