It's worth reading this comment about the use of beer to disinfect water: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ol1h45/deleted_by_user/h5bjn7s/ https

It's worth reading this comment about the use of beer to disinfect water: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ol1h45/deleted_by_user/h5bjn7s/ https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ol1h45/delet... It puts forward that the purpose of small beer was mainly because water is boring to drink all the time.