In the Middle Ages, beer was the most common drink. Was consumed by all social classes, especially in disadvantaged areas where climate grape growing. The sow was considered a resource of calories. In southern areas, where the wine was the most popular drink beer was the lower classes.
Since no one can guarantee the purity of water and that at that time epidemic is particularly prevalent in the water (cholera) was preferred beer. Why? In the manufacturing process to purify the water being boiled micoro bodies.
Though popular as a drink, scientists did not cherish the time, especially because Arabs, who had nothing in common with this drink, and the Greeks, who put great value on wine and which have influenced the science of weather. Thus, in 1256, doctor Aldobrandino (Aldebrandin) of Siena said about beer that: "But the ingredients that make the ov? z, barley or wheat, it (beer) d? uneaza head and stomach, causes bad breath and ruining teeth, fill your stomach with bad fumes, and as a result of the mixture of wine anyone drunk quickly, but not the property of facilitating urination and white meat are good. "We do not know if referring to meat for steak or meat man.
