Your daily beers would have been a "small" beer like the kind they served school children in Belgium until very recently [0]. Maybe 1.5% alcohol by volume tops.

Your daily beers would have been a "small" beer like the kind they served school children in Belgium until very recently [0]. Maybe 1.5% alcohol by volume tops. It's not the alcohol that prevents the spread of disease but the fact that the water gets boiled for hours during manufacture. By the time that's done you could have used water drawn from John Snow's well in London and it would be fine. [0] https://www.amazingbelgium.be/2016/08/till-70s-belgian-kids-got-to-drink-beer.html https://www.amazingbelgium.be/2016/08/till-70s-belgian-kids-...