[kwhitefoot]

That's backwards. Coffee was introduced into England before 1600. The first coffee house opened in Oxford in 1650. The explosion in the consumption of distilled spirits was half a century later, fuelled by the governments encouragement of the distilling industry and banning of French imports of spirrits. Hogarth's gin lane is from 1751.

[JoeAltmaier]

1675 was the heydey - 3000 coffee houses in England, many of those in London