The history of alcohol: everything you wanted to know
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Are You Getting Drunk From Small Beer All Day Long?
There were gradations of beer and ale based on the quality of the ingredients. Although it's a myth that people never drank water, small beer was an integral feature of British diets. It doesn't follow that everybody is extremely drunk all the time or you know it was a population of functioning alcoholics as we would understand it.
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