they drunk beer and wine because it was safer than water, which would have all sorts of disease and parasites in it. Also boiling, which is a feature of beer making, further disinfects it. Alcohol gets rid of bad stuff too. So all in all, beer and iwne were amazing god-granted liqids.

They thought it was miraculous that a liquid could change like that, to them it was literally a work of divine grace. It was the breath of god, which they would notice because yeast give off CO2 which is heavy and feel dense, so the brewing room would have a funny atmosphere, breathing too much of god's divine breath was fatal so that was a proof of sorts.

That's why getting drunk was such a feature of religious ceremonies, gods of beer and wine.

So,as Twank points out, the chances of them doing this deliberately are somewhere close ot zero.

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