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Modern beer, even the industrial lager you despise is much better that what 99% of people drank in the past. There is almost no bad beer, the standards for wate
by Paul_S 3y ago
Modern beer, even the industrial lager you despise is much better that what 99% of people drank in the past. There is almost no bad beer, the standards for water quality and hygiene are high, the process and technology is well understood and we can replicate the same beer batch after batch, year after year.
- fsckboy 3y ago[flagged]
- serf 3y ago>you are stating as fact something you can't possibly know, how much people enjoyed tasting things in the past. it's trivial to state that food standards and water quality have increased in quality. taste is subjective, but those two things can be well judged against historical anecdote.
- soperj 3y ago> water quality have increased in quality. Depends where you are. I'm sure the people of Flint might object.
- ch4s3 3y agoThey fixed the pipes there[1]. [1] https://www.abc12.com/news/flint-water-emergency/flint-reaches-deadline-for-water-service-line-replacement/article_28f5bd78-3063-11ee-9b70-e3fb4cf16413.html https://www.abc12.com/news/flint-water-emergency/flint-reach...
- mc32 3y agoYou know Flint isn’t the only place in the US with lead pipes and the US isn’t the only industrialized county with lead pipes… Moreover well water in some places is good in others not; even before industrialization.
- lmm 3y agoThen why is an organisation based on opposition to that industrial lager, and improvement of beer quality more generally, probably the most major/successful/historically important single-issue consumer organisation, to the point that most other ones have modelled themselves on it?
- Solvency 3y agoBecause, honestly, beer and wine and spirits tend to attract elite level snobs.