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"The amount of alcohol consumed by drinking historical beer brews is between 0.62 to 0.107, the % of alcohol in “small beer” is taken to be around 0.05 and the
by dr_orpheus 3y ago
"The amount of alcohol consumed by drinking historical beer brews is between 0.62 to 0.107, the % of alcohol in “small beer” is taken to be around 0.05 and the % in “strong beer” is taken to be around 0.135"
Although it doesn't specify weight or volume, but the 5% alcohol beer seems to be equivalent of the "small beer".
There are also the "pure alcohol" charts in the table that I think try and account for it.
Also there's the comment about beer for sailors in the 10-15% range.
- 26fingies 3y agoThey did have a couple data points for volume. A historical average of ~1 liter of beer or wine per day is mentioned at the beginning of the post. Further down it seems English sailors had a daily ration of 4.5 liters(!!) of strong beer. So taken together it seems modern people are indeed an awful lot less drunk than they were in the middle ages. If you’re referring to the “0.05” figure i think that is just out of a unit of 1. IOW multiply by 100 to get %. They use % in other parts of the post.