How Can We Benefit From All These Upsides of Alcohol?

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There's been a movement toward consciously making less alcoholic beers in order to make drinking more social and pleasurable and safe. I was actually talking yesterday to some guys who had to a podcast focus on beer, and they're really involved in the craft beer community. And i'd never heard this term before, but they said there's been a move toward session ales or something like that. Ah, how do you think we can benefit from all these upsides of alcohol and and reduce or eliminate these risks? Well, first of all, be like the greeks. In european style wines tend to be lower alcohol then stuff that's produced in california and australia

Do we have alcohol to thank for civilization? The answer, according to Edward Slingerland’s new book, “Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization,” is a resounding yes. Edward, who’s a professor at the University of British Columbia and self-proclaimed “philosophical hedonist,” says that far from being an evolutionary fluke, our taste for alcohol is an evolutionary advantage — one that we’ve relied on for millennia to help us lead more social, creative, and pleasurable lives.