Did Martin Luther drink better beer than your average American college student? (user search)
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« on: February 13, 2015, 12:15:16 PM »

He surely drank more, at least. But the everyday beer of the 16th century was still light beer with little original wort that has probably some similarity with the German chliché of "American beer".
On the other hand, Torgisch beer (from the town of Torgau) is probably the beer Luther drank most in Wittenberg and this had a very good reputation. (It was at least that good that the students of Leipzig once started a revolt to have the import of Torgisch beer allowed so they had not to drink the beer from Leipzig that tasted like "karst".

Luther also liked wine, first of all Malvasier

On a particularly unrelated note, he once stated, that, unlike Justus Jonas, he did not use this new fenzy invention called "toilet paper".

It was light as in "lite", i.e. low-calorie and low alcohol, but it was almost certainly dark-colored, and quite possibly smoky and/or sour.  Pale malts and controlled fermentation are relatively recent innovations.
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