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Re:Were Early Modern People Perpetually Drunk? (2016) by kagamine on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @02:33AM (#13539049)
Not sure if it is still available, but in the UK there was a stout called Sweetheart Stout that was brewed to 2.5% alcohol making it like a very sweet Guinness. It is lovely, used to drink it all the time 20 years ago.

Iirc it was in earlier times marketed to ladies and also pregnant women because it is high in Vitamin B12(?) or something. Legend had it you wouldn't get rickets (bendy legs) if you drank sweet stout.

In Scandinavia lett øl (low alcohol beer) is in all the supermarkets, this is 2.5% alcohol pilsner.

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Re:Were Early Modern People Perpetually Drunk? (2016) by jamesfmilne on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @08:43AM (#13540614)
My mother claims she used to drink that whilst she was pregnant with me.

Would explain a lot :D

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Re:Were Early Modern People Perpetually Drunk? (2016) by Graham24 on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @08:12AM (#13540426)
That sounds a bit like Mackeson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackeson_Stout
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Re:Were Early Modern People Perpetually Drunk? (2016) by l0b0 on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @05:27PM (#13546023)
Check and mate: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Younger-Alloa-Sweetheart-Stout-500m...
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Re:Were Early Modern People Perpetually Drunk? (2016) by kagamine on Thursday February 02, 2017 @03:09AM (#13548940)
Can't get that sent to me outside the UK and now I am sad and it's all your fault. But now I have another reason to visit the homeland, so I am happy and that's your fault too.
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