[Sca-cooks] Another contempory account of drinking water

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In a message dated 6/29/01 8:42:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
mark.s.harris at motorola.com writes:

> In editing my bev-water-msg file, I came across this recent message.
>  I thought some here might be interested. This would seem to be another
>  indication that plain water was drunk, even if it wasn't a favorite
>  beverage. Since it was generally the better off folks that could afford
>  to make a pilgrimage, and the only ones that would be reading such a
>  travelogue, this also indicates that the better off and not just
>  the peasants, did drink plain water.
>
>  Stefan li Rous
>  stefan at texas.net

Wasn't water usually made for brewing beer since most of the water was
undrinkable?

Misha