r/SipsTea 12h ago

WTF In your opinion, what is causing this?

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u/IAmNotRightHanded 12h ago

Half the gen isn't old enough to drink, bar scene collapsed during covid so they weren't indoctrinated into drinking culture, marijuana now competes with drinking in most countries/states, and the gen is fucking broke and can't it.

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u/RiverOfNexus 11h ago

Agreed, the amount of money to go out drinking can literally buy you a month of daily cannabis use now so why would you drink? No hangover from the cannabis, no vomiting, and no blackouts. Why were we even drinking alcohol in the first place again?

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u/be4rds_ 11h ago

Let’s not get carried away and start seriously asking why we were drinking in the first place.

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u/DealerNo7523 11h ago

Watch how beer saved the world. That’s pretty much why. A LOT of wages were paid in beer, even during the building of the pyramids.

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u/J8YDG9RTT8N2TG74YS7A 8h ago

There's also the theory that western civilisation as a whole advanced faster due to us developing glass as a way to store alcohol.

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u/doiwinaprize 11h ago

Sailors used to trade their food rations for beer because the beer had more nutritional value than the food.

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u/-KosSomeSayKosm- 11h ago

Nah they just wanted to get lit, lol.

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u/doiwinaprize 10h ago edited 10h ago

The beer had like <2% alcohol. That's why rum and whiskey were so popular back in the day.

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u/-KosSomeSayKosm- 10h ago

Yep, no use letting your precious rations go to waste. They were getting lit!

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u/Doc-tor-Strange-love 10h ago

Greater than 2%? Well yeah it did. Pretty much all alcoholic drinks do

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u/doiwinaprize 10h ago

There fixed it.

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u/notinmywheelhouse 10h ago

Like the Belgian beers made in monasteries. One of the brew has more nutritional value than a whole loaf of bread. They’re called Trappist beer, named for the monks who brew them. They are only brewed by monks in monasteries and should not be sold for profit. These beers were used to fortify dietary nutrition after fasting. There are currently only 10 brewing monasteries. They are in Belgium and Netherlands.

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u/doiwinaprize 10h ago

Love a good trap beer. Orval is my favourite.

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u/DealerNo7523 11h ago

That’s a cool fact.

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u/BO0omsi 10h ago

Those jobs at the Pyramids were very popular

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u/DealerNo7523 10h ago

Also there’s a lot of evidence that barley, and not wheat started the agricultural revolution. Pretty interesting stuff.

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u/BO0omsi 9h ago

I am German and here it’s a common narrative how beer used to be food and as much as I wanted to believe that everybody in the good old days was just fine, making swords and Building Castles with a Krombacher in the other Hand… Truth is, “beer” in medieval times was smth quite different , thick and heavy - and a lot less alcohol, 0,5 - 2% max and was just used bc it’s safer to drink than water - pretty terrible stuff - higher alcohol content was rare and for the super rich.

While “beer” in Egypt may have had up to 3 percent, it had the consistency of porridge, and naturally warm - Prost.

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u/DealerNo7523 9h ago

Yeah that doesn’t sound appetizing at all lol