Sure before modern civilized times when the water supply was filthy with human waste, that’s why everyone had to drink alcohol. Because they polluted their own water supply with shit. Glad science figured things out and got us back to drinking water again.
The idea that people drank beer because it was safer than water is a myth. They drank for the exact same reason we do today…you get a buzz. A side benefit was that beer had calories in a drinkable form. The safety of the drink, as in not full of harmful microbes, was an indirect but not primary benefit.
It’s also nearly impossible to defend alcohol consumption without sounding like an alcoholic.
I’ll take a stab at it.
It’s a safe drinking supply. That’s a big part of why humans drank it for thousands of years.
Sure before modern civilized times when the water supply was filthy with human waste, that’s why everyone had to drink alcohol. Because they polluted their own water supply with shit. Glad science figured things out and got us back to drinking water again.
The idea that people drank beer because it was safer than water is a myth. They drank for the exact same reason we do today…you get a buzz. A side benefit was that beer had calories in a drinkable form. The safety of the drink, as in not full of harmful microbes, was an indirect but not primary benefit.