[ywvcbk]

It has nothing to do with alcohol though. Unfiltered and unpasteurized weak beer will go bad in a few days even if you have a fridge.

It was boiling that kills the bacteria and people knew that it improved the “quality” of water that wasn’t safe to drink.

I wonder if people in a few hundred years will think that we drank so much coke/etc. because tap water was dirty an polluted with lead. Because that sounds about as silly as this myth..

[jncfhnb]

Ambiguous. Smaller ABV will still have some effect. Small beers were typically started at 10% ABV and brought down. Other alcohols were typically made strong and then diluted with plain water. Boiling is of course good.

Also, people regularly drink bottled beverages to avoid unsafe water conditions. A light Beer is actually one of the very safest things you can drink because the carbonation makes it very unlikely that they’re not giving you a refilled bottle while traveling

[ywvcbk]

> A light Beer is actually one of the very safest

It doesn’t have much in common with premodern/medieval light table beer.