[ffgjgf1]

> extremely curious your ale goes bad so quickly

Not mine. Medieval ale didn’t have any hops in it (it didn’t become widespread until the 1400/1500s in some countries like England) so its shelf life was shorter

> It's definitely not a myth

Why do you think so?

[somenameforme]

Beyond what I've mentioned? You can find reference, both direct and indirect, to the casual consumption of what we call beer everywhere. For instance even in the Old Testament, look at Isaiah 1:22: "Your silver has become dross, Your drink diluted with water." The Bible imposes countless prohibitions on alcohol but exclusively on "wine" and "strong drink". And that's from the 8th century BC. But we can actually go even much further back. For instance Egyptian workers working on the pyramids received rations of about 5 liters of beer per day. [1]

You can also find the preservation of a certain type of mentality all the way to modern times. In many places, including Russia and Sweden at the minimum, many alcoholic beverages (like kvass) are not age restricted at all, because they're not considered an alcoholic drink in the normal connotation of such. Here's [2] also a nice quote from an 18th century book: "For the drink of the more robust children water is preferable, and for the weaker ones, small beer."

There is overwhelming evidence for beer as a normal staple throughout most of all history, and for people of all ages and stations.

[1] - https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/06/5000-year-old-pay-st...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_beer#History