(November 16, 2020 at 3:25 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: It's not hard to say, at all. A person who lived in that place at that time would have drunk alcoholic grape juice. Wine.
It was likely to be stronger than the lightly alcoholic stuff we drink here in the states (our in the modern world, broadly). Greek and roman wines both had a higher abv than our contemporary offerings.
15-20%...10-12%
(helped them store better without refridgeration and with inadequate means to prevent contamination - convenient, since you have to stop fermentation, somehow, to get the wines we make now - doing nothing of the sort gets you a higher number)
In fact, Greek and Roman wines had such a high alcohol content that a person who didn’t dilute his wine with water was viewed as uncultured (the ewers of water made available at mealtimes weren’t for drinking, but for adding to wine).
Boru
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