It was a different George W, of course. The Currier & Ives print of 1848 shows George Washington, a well known distiller and connoisseur of fine rums, raising his glass in a toast to his officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York.
Before in 1848
Twenty years of evangelical temperance later, his glass has disappeared and the bottle on the table has become a cocked hat. So George W really did stop drinking - after he was dead.
It was a different George W, of course. The Currier & Ives print of 1848 shows George Washington, a well known distiller and connoisseur of fine rums, raising his glass in a toast to his officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York. 
Twenty years of evangelical temperance later, his glass has disappeared and the bottle on the table has become a cocked hat. So George W really did stop drinking - after he was dead.