Comments by "voteZDLR" (@voteZDLR) on "What Life in the Soviet Union Was Like" video.

It used to be that beer wasn't considered alcohol per se in some really old societies because it was difficult to purify water to be safe enough to drink. They discovered that people would be less likely to get sick after drinking what is technically beer because it had just enough alcohol in it to kill any organisms in the drink but it was such a small amount of alcohol it didn't really get you drunk the way modern beer does.
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@johnharbour2631 Yeah I am sure there is some scientific reasoning beyond me that could further explain it but one way or another, people used to drink "beer" (not what we would consider beer) because it was safer to drink than water. Before they figured out how to clean water and all that.
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That's interesting. I had a teacher in high school as well and she was from the soviet union. She was a music teacher and she explained basically that she had no choice or say in the matter. They basically would give kids a placement test and if you showed any musical talent or aptitude as a child, you were put on an educational path that would make you a musician at the end of your education. The government decided what jobs people would work from an early age. I guess the only difference from there is deciding what instrument or instruments you'd learn. In her case she was a choir teacher so she was just taught to sing basically. It was interesting hearing her tales of the old country and how things were different before and after the soviet union's collapse.
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@tiggy7777 100% historical fact.
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@maksphoto78 That's wild I didn't know that! I always wondered where the India in IPA came from.
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@maksphoto78 It's okay, I forgive you. People drank beer instead of water. The alcohol in beer or other fermented drinks like cider and ale DOES kill germs. Of course it goes bad eventually, everything does, but even ground water had the potential for and the capacity to have organisms in it -- organisms that would have a harder time surviving in alcohol based drinks than water. I don't care if you got it from a medieval Brita tap water filter, still water of any kind become breeding grounds for germs and organisms of all kinds. The people back then didn't understand any of this let alone know what germs or the concepts of germs were, but they did view beer and other alcohol-based drinks not just safer (from experience as much as anything else scientifically speaking) but more nutritionally sound than drinking water. All they knew was they'd be less likely to get sick drinking that than water from any source they had available. Acting like ground water is somehow impervious to germs. What the fuck are you talking about?
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@Walker-ow7vj IPA's are great man haha
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