[MR] wow.... just wow

[isolda1066 at gmail.com]

Greetings

If we all started drinking only beer and mead right now, sure we'd be pretty well toasted, but in period people grew up drinking that their whole lives...would their bodies be used to it and therefore show less outward signs of drunkeness?  For that matter how did they not all have liver problems.

I'm also aware that 2nd and 3rd brews were taken off the same grain bed (called small beer b/c it was less potent) and that this is what women and children typically drank.

Regards 
Isolda de Crosthwaite 

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From: David Chessler <chessler at usa.net>
To: Chris Harrop <chrshrrp at yahoo.com>, "Roy B. Scherer" <rscherer at lairhaven.com>
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Sent: Sun, Jan 30, 2011 06:15:58 GMT+00:00
Subject: Re: [MR] wow....  just wow

The only common one was alcohol in all its guises. Beer and wine were
preferred to water, which was generally unsafe, so most people were probably
half-bagged most of the time by modern standards. Hashish and Opium were known
and were used as medicines. Hashish was "abused" by the Assassin sect in
Arabia (or Persia), but was not apparently used in Europe.

Distilled spirits came in the late middle ages. Most of the accounts I have
read do not mention them. They were probably rare and expensive.

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Received: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 11:24:36 PM EST
From: Chris Harrop <chrshrrp at yahoo.com>
To: "Roy B. Scherer" <rscherer at lairhaven.com>Cc: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
Subject: Re: [MR] wow....  just wow

> I wonder what they did about recreational substances in the middle ages. 
Does 
> anyone know?
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> From: Roy B. Scherer <rscherer at lairhaven.com>
> To: The Merry Rose <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
> Sent: Sat, January 29, 2011 2:11:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [MR] wow.... just wow
> 
> At 12:01 PM 1/28/2011, you wrote:
> > I know it's a serious problem but you've got to give them points for
creativity 
> >-- plus I got a giggle from the headline!
> 
> Milady -
>         With all due respect, neither the importation of marijuana into
the 
> United States, nor its use by mundane Americans, is a "serious problem".  I

> would call it "personal choice".
>         Instead, I would term the Government's futile, wasteful,
expensive, 
> racist, dishonest "War on some Drugs" a serious problem.  (Then again, I
might 
> possibly be a bit biased.)
>         If I misunderstood your meaning, then please forgive my error.
> -- Britton
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