Proof of why medieval peasants drank more water than ale: There wasn’t enough grain for it to even be possible.

That gives around 560,000 quarters of malt, enough to make just under 53.8 million gallons of ale a year, 15.37 gallons of ale per adult per year, or a third of a pint a day—2.36 pints a week per peasant. You can argue that number is guess based on guess, but it would have to be wrong by a factor of 10.

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