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Ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians drank beer daily as it was more nutritious and sanitary thirst quencher than water. But, I never see any mentions of beer in ancient Greek literature. Do we have any evidence that the Greeks were familiar with beer? Why didn't Greeks also adopt beer?

by /u/mythoplokos in /r/AskHistorians

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