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To be honest if you are unaware of the bad effects of beer or how addiction works in general, it seems like a thing that you would get so easily addicted to. I
by mewpmewp2 3y ago
To be honest if you are unaware of the bad effects of beer or how addiction works in general, it seems like a thing that you would get so easily addicted to.
If I had a different knowledge set and easy access to beer, perhaps I would just drink it daily.
Without water I imagine there are going to be massive hangovers though.
- 7thaccount 3y agoI assume these beers were pretty low ABV. Addiction to alcohol probably was pretty common and perhaps preferable to dysentery.
- 878654Tom 3y agoYes, this is called Small Beer or Table Beer in Belgium. It goes as low as 1% and was very normal in schools and at homes before clean water was a common thing. It still is a very popular beer to drink while you eat but children don't consume it anymore. My father did tell me that when he was younger (1970-1980) they still drank it at the table in his school.
- kwhitefoot 3y agoI don't know when the rules changed but when I was a child in England in the sixties anything less than 2% could be sold to anyone, it wasn't regarded as properly alcoholic. The brand I remember is Top Deck Shandy, half and half lemonade and light beer.
- bell-cot 3y agoThe quoted bit specifies small beer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_beer#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_beer#History
- wongarsu 3y agoCommon beers back then were very different from today's beer. Beer was more of a liquid meal, with lots of calories and about half the alcohol content of a Coors Light.
- TSiege 3y agoHonestly that sounds kinda awesome to me. I'd love to try it