Medieval folk didn't drink alcohol to avoid dirty water

Oh, also the olden-days just sucked:

“Those were drinking days, and most men drank hard. So very great is the improvement Time has brought about in such habits, that a moderate statement of the quantity of wine and punch which one man would swallow in the course of a night, without any detriment to his reputation as a perfect gentleman, would seem, in these days, a ridiculous exaggeration.”
-Dickens

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