Adam's ale Adam's ale Adam's ale (also referred to as "Adam's wine", especially in Scotland; sometimes simply called "Adam") is a colloquial allusion meaning water. It alludes to the idea that the biblical Adam had only water to drink. This inference gained popularity around the beginning of the 19th-century temperance movement. "Adam's ale" means unadulterated water, based on the presumption that the biblical first man Adam had only water to drink in the Garden of Eden. Common variations are "Adam's wine" in Scotland, and sometimes simply "Adam". The phrase is an allusion, colloquialism, epithet, and idiom. In common use until the mid-
Adam S. Radomsky Health New Investigator Award. He has published several book chapters and research articles on cognition, emotion and behaviour in OCD and other anxiety disorders and is frequently invited to present his research findings at national and international conferences. His current research focuses on thoughts, beliefs and memory in OCD as well as on new investigations of compulsive checking and contamination-based OCD. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. Adam S. Radomsky Adam S. Radomsky is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Dr. Radomsky trained with Professor