Different Uses For Beer

Lots of modern research says that is a myth, whether for Middle Ages Europe or Colonial America - such as this article:
Bad Water Never Made People Drink Beer Instead
or this one
Drinking In Colonial America: Stay Away From the Water, Right?
which notes:

When there was a benefit to beer over bad water, it was more likely from the fact that brewing beer meant the water was boiled (thus killing the germs) rather than the alcohol in the beer taking care of the little buggers... especially in the case of low alcohol "small beer" being consumed by children.

 

Boil the water or use iodine tablets, I carried them when I was in the service. You couldn’t take a chance on drinking contaminated water and those little Protozoa caused a lot of problems. Warm canteen water that tastes like iodine and plastic was disgusting, but better than the screaming shits when there’s no facilities.

 

Wonder if rainwater untreated would be safe? It can’t be created or destroyed it just changes into a different form, wonder if the bugs travel.

 

Leads you back to boiling it and safely storing it, a mean feat 200 years ago. Assuming they knew the buggies that made you sick we’re jn the water. I’m assuming 10s of thousands died during the Civil War from disease from bad water and food.

 

Not sure it is unusual, but growing up around the Chesapeake, we always steamed crabs with beer. Once the crabs were done, we drank beer while eating them.

 

This made me recall reading an account of the problems associated with the supply of water at sea in the 1600s.

I'm thinking that the problem with water back in the day was keeping it for a long time, or drinking from unfamiliar sources that were potentially tainted. While drinking fresh water from a spring or a well wasn't really a problem.

 

Bad beers, drain cleaners

 

Modern science refers to the scientific knowledge of today in our time (the article was published in 2005 by the Naval history association).

 

Beats the hell out of that IPA mustard

 

Yes, their Dusseldorf style is very good. I have a full set of the mugs.

 

Enter Kent T cueing up the theme music from Shirley Bassey, Goldfinger!!!

 

In the seventies beer shampoo was popular even though I was a kid. I liked the smell of the beer shampoo. I think it was made by Breck

 

Yeah, that was Body on Tap Shampoo (mentioned, with link to YouTube commercial in post #10). I was once told by an AB-Newark employee that they sold Bristol-Myers expired Bud kegs to make the stuff.

The small Vermont Country Store had contracted with a manufacturer to revive the brand - and, for a time, they were putting it into a plastic long-neck beer bottle-ish shaped container. Which seems like an great promotional idea that B-M somehow rejected or didn't consider? (Funny, they didn't try to appeal to the men's market, esp. given the longer hair styles of the period).

Unless their bottle was meant to mimic the Michelob bottle of the era?

(Ah, damn! My coupon's expired! I hate when that happens...)

 

The Breck girls weren't bad either