Wine in the Middle Ages
In the Middle Ages wine and beer flowed in rivers.
A sober period par excellence, the so-called middle age however, it was not such in the consumption of alcohol, which were drunk daily with greed and pleasure by people of all ages and walks of life.
From this point of view, in fact, sobriety was never the strong point of medieval men (for women it was a completely different story), so much so that taverns and breweries they were the most popular meeting and socializing places of those centuries, when collective drunkenness was the order of the day.
However, it should also be noted that this evident propensity for alcohol was reinforced by the widespread fear of drinking water, a fear that is far from unfounded, as it was often infected and the cause of various diseases, some of which are serious and even fatal.