They must be liberals. Can't think straight, so they conclude that the drinks were mixed.
Try quaffing a mixture of beer, mead and wine, have 2 or 3 in an hour , and you might as well be drinking mustard and water. Not to mention that if you manage to keep it down, there's hell to pay on the nether end.
I doubt that human physiology or gastrointestinal metabolism has changed that much.
Its a no brainer that the vessels were used to drink different beverages at different times. What you drank was driven by the seasons.
Beer in winter, wine in late summer and fall, and mead in the spring and summer.
Only the wealthy could afford to store and brew out of season.
Excellent analysis. Well said.
That’s an excellent alternative view from the one presented in the article. As I said in another post, their position was reasonable, but hardly overwhelmingly persuasive.
Although I think that, given the diet and sanitation in the Bad Old Days, anyone who survived to adulthood must have had bowels of iron.
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