Nope it’s a common misconception. If you had the ability to boil water for a beer wouldn’t you just drink the water that had been boiled? Beer wasn’t pasteurised, carbonated and bottled in sanitary conditions like modern beer. It would have been full of natural yeast and bacteria on top of being unrefrigerated chances are you would have something close to vinegar in a few weeks. Truth is people like getting fucked up and they always have.