[MR] wow.... just wow

[Bambi TBNL]

What did their livers look like?..... Sigh..... 
 what was the average life expectancy?..... Silly mortal!                                                 -----Original Message-----
Date: Sunday, January 30, 2011 8:25:26 am
To: "David Chessler" <chessler at usa.net>,atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
From: "isolda1066 at gmail.com" <isolda1066 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MR] wow....  just wow

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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-----Original message-----
From: David Chessler <chessler at usa.net>
To: Chris Harrop <chrshrrp at yahoo.com>, "Roy B. Scherer" <rscherer at lairhaven.com>
Cc: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
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 Opi