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wtf do people like this imagine is in beer?
Are you asking why beer instead of water?
I believe the gist is that back in ye olden times when everybody was just throwing their sewage into the river, that beer was less likely to kill you because it's boiled before it's fermented. I don't think they made the connection to boiling, but rather knew beer was a safer drink.
I'm spouting this off from memory without looking it up, so no guarantee I'm correct.
To be fair, that beer was also generally much milder than modern beer, between 1-2% alc per volume (in Europe) , at least per historians and research papers I've read.
Edit: also most of those historians whose books I refer in this context are mostly Finnish, Swedish or German, so that should give some idea about my biases/sources. Its different in the Pacifics and Western Africa, I know.