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Well the safety affordable might have helped spread even if original invention was for fun. Coffee started as a recreational upper before it turned into a productivity hack
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True. My Belgian family tell me that until recently a super-weak beer. I believe that one of the key moments in John Snow's early epidemiology was related to monks in London drinking beer (and not getting cholera) rather than pump water.
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Absolutely not a just so story and still true in some countries with poor water like Haiti. The boiling at the very least in the creation of beer ensures its pretty safe compared to maybe-got-cholera water.
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I must be wrong. But I thought the culture grew with sailors who needed a liquid that won't 'spoil' at sea or is potable as spoilt. The barrels worked.