What’s the history of low-alcohol beer?
It could well be the history of most beers, actually. Beer is one of the world’s oldest alcoholic drinks, and in many different periods and places it wasn’t particularly potent.
We all “know”, for instance, that even children consumed beer in medieval England because it was safer than water. In truth, though the ingredients were boiled, they might then have been kept in unwashed containers; any hygiene advantage was as likely to come
