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During a plague, the Bishop of the French city of Soissons, ordered the whole city not to drink any water. He had a love of brewing beer all his life and knew it was much safer to drink than water. He had his own brewery in his cathedral’s basement and had brewed stockpiles of it. Now gave it out to all the people of the city and had his brewery working overtime so that the people wouldn’t run out of beer.
Because of this Soissons suffered the least out of any of the surrounding cities from the plague and St. Arnold was canonized as the patron Saint of Beer 🍻
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People actually have known since caveman times that boiling water made it safer to drink. They didn't know why exactly, but they definitly could smell/taste the difference between clean water and dirty water. Like we can. The reason more that people liked beer was more about the storing of calories then the storing of water. It's actually a very nutritious beverage if you don't filter it. Even the alcohol itself is broken down into calories which today we avoid but in the past were essential to not starve
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Group B vitamins as well. In beer they are present in an organic form that is simple for your body to be processed and consumed to prevent iron deficiency anemia, especially for women. Beer yeast mixed up with a liquid sourcream is the best way to cure severe forms of anaemia after massive blood loss caused by, for example, giving birth. Black sausage/black pudding was used to cure this condition as well, especially if served together with beer yeast/thick beer with sourcream.
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For the navy, Rum was their lifeblood due to another property of alcohol
Sterilisation
Stagnant water in barrels can go bad and fill with bacteria that can kill you or make you ill
Rum however, was an easily accessible alcohol from many island and coastal regions, and when mixed with water at a ratio of about 1:10, it would help prevent stagnant water developing bacteria
Thus
Grog was born
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Just a Microbiology student passing by:
1. It’s not a “myth” per se to state that beer was safer than water back in the olden day but rather an oversimplification. However it is actually kinda correct.
2. Some context: The main yeast used for beer and wine is Sacchromyces cervisiae. This yeast has many variants/strains where they differ depending on their genome and are used differently depending on the product.
3. Why isn’t it totally a myth?, well because S.cerevisiae DOMINATES many ferments especially anything thats fermented around room temperature. It also generates a bit of its own heat (albeit, that comes in more handy if the wort hasn’t been boiled) from the fermentation process itself which keeps the ball in S.cerevisiae’s court so to speak (this means that it’s incredibly efficient in creating a niche in which it thrives and thus kills off any of the unwanted yeast and bacteria).
4. Finally, brewing standards + the microbiology of this marvellous fungi is what truly made beer and wine safe to drink, and as time went on - both crafts became highly specialised to a science.
5. Extra fun fact: Beer is one of the most beautiful instances in history where both Statistics (the necessity to monitor the quality of stout led to the development of the students t-distribution) and Microbiology (S.cerevisiae strains being grown in labs to the brewers desired taste) came together.
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Tbh, the saying about quality drinks never changed: it's medicine in small amount, it's poison in big amount. Beer is also healthy on a way with its nutrients.
Pro tip: of you have a strong spirit and your head is killing you from work or stress, rub some of it on and the area will relax wonderfully. I did that a few times with Hungarian housemade Pálinka, and it's wonderful. 😁
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@razorknight92
9 months ago
"What if beer was about survival?"
Preach, brother.
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