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Why is it that in modern Western society that Wine is seen as more highbrow and beer and spirits as more lowbrow, when did alcohol start to get viewed this way, and did socities before this time view different times of alcohol, did they rank alcohol in terms of highbrow and lowbrow status?

by /u/WinstonbbiswSmith in /r/AskHistorians

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