• rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    11 days ago

    Sake is basically the same thing as beer (grain(starch)-based alcohol), I don’t see a reason why it wouldn’t be possible to brew a weaker sake.

    But the thing is, they never really needed something to serve the role of beer (i.e. an alcoholic drink for safe hydration), because east asians figured out that boiling makes water safe quite a bit earlier that europeans (or they just drank boiled drinks despite not knowing that that’s one of the effects).

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          10 days ago

          Beer has a pretty big caloric value. No citation provided as I’m quoting my memory of a thing i studied for a project 15 years ago. I could be totally full of shit.

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              10 days ago

              Bro, probably not, Jesus Christ man I said I was probably full of shit. What do you want from me? If you’re so interested in it all of a sudden then you go study it.