Saving Millions in Europe
In medieval Europe beer actually saved millions by keeping them healthy. In Medical Europe, it was incredibly polluted and dirty, and so was its water. If one were to drink the water there, they would quickly become sick and possibly die due to the bacteria in the water. So how did they survive with no clean drinking water? Beer. One of the major parts in the process of creating medieval beer was boiling the mixture. Back then, they did not know that this was the key to cleaning the water; they just simply did it to improve the taste of the beer. To prove the theory that the ancient beer was clean scientist have done successful lab tests using ancient recipes to prove that the bacteria was removed in the process. When people in Medieval Europe started drinking beer to avoid the water, the beer business skyrocketed. Drinking beer became the norm for men, women, and children caused them to stop drinking the hazardous water, meaning that beer saved thousands of lives by providing these people with a safe alternative to drinking water. The people of Medieval Europe got threw six times as much beer in a year as we do today. Due to all this beer drinking, the church grew vastly wealthy since the brewers were actually monks. It also helped the church grow in terms of people attending because beer was usually promised at the end of every service for free. However, eventually this moneymaking idea spread and entrepreneurs picked up the job of beer brewing. Since beer was trading and sold so much throughout Europe it is said that “Beer brewing was a critical factor in the development of they economy and it was spearhead in the creation of trade, commerce, banking, finance”[1] and was the birth of modern capitalism.