The founding fathers sure loved to drink. While in France, Jefferson spent a great deal of time in the vineyards of Burgundy. John Adams is said to have drank hard cider for breakfast every day to the day he died.
In 1787, two days before they signed off on the Constitution, the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention partied at a tavern. According to the bill preserved from the evening, they drank 54 bottles of Madeira, 60 bottles of claret, eight of whiskey, 22 of porter, eight of hard cider, 12 of beer and seven bowls of alcoholic punch.
They would put American frat boys to shame. Getting drunk and not losing control was socially acceptable in those times, something that would slowly become less acceptable until the US had alcohol prohibition in the early 20th century.
There are many arguments over what the founding fathers would have thought about things we do in this country, but it seems like prohibition is one thing that they for sure wouldn’t have supported.