Did People Once Drink Beer Every Day?

larsga@garshol.priv.no (Lars Marius Garshol)
2022-10-15 11:57:00 CET

Martyn Cornell has been fulminating against what he calls The Great Medieval Water Myth: that the peasants drank ale all the time because ale was safe to drink while water was not. He concludes that it's wrong, and that English peasants mostly drank water.