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If boiling is enough what’s the point of “wasting” grain if your only goal is to make the water safe to drink? Also medieval authorities to great effort to kee

• defrost 3y ago
  > if your only goal is to make the water safe to drink? The point of medieval beer and ale making exercises was to make beer and ale, (which required boiling water as part of the common recipes of the day).. which very likely created a notable difference between those drinking mostly large amounts of low alcohol beer | ale made from boiled water compared to those that mostly drank unboiled liquids.
  • ffhhttt 3y ago
    You’re implying that it wasn’t common knowledge that boiling water made it somewhat safer to drink? > which very likely created a notable difference between those drinking Well I suppose they were somewhat more drunk most of the time and also more well off since they could afford it? Also again, you can make assumptions but I’m not aware that there is substantial evidence that this was the case.
• code_duck 3y ago
  It also turns the water and grain into a something nourishing. Beer has carbs and vitamins.