Google “small beer”. Fermentation was proven to make it less likely you’d get sick from the drinking water, this was more about the lack of water sanitation than beer snobbery.
29 posted on 11/18/2019 7:47:02 AM PST by bigbob
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I believe it was the boiling of the mash that killed the buggers.
35 posted on 11/18/2019 8:01:22 AM PST by polymuser
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