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Re:Were Early Modern People Perpetually Drunk? (2016) by WorldMaker on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @11:02AM (#13541713)
The ability to carbonate water (for soda) without yeast/alcohol is very much a relatively modern industrial invention.

Root beer and Ginger ale are named as such for the obvious reason.

My small disappointment in the current fad of "hard" sodas is that they are often malt beverages/"distilled" beer at ~5% alcohol rather than, say, traditional recipes in the ~2-3% range.

Re:Were Early Modern People Perpetually Drunk? (2016) by SFJulie on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @11:04AM (#13541738)
make yours :) it is easy and fun.