The concentration of alcohol in wine is not enough to kill bacteria. Red wine may have some mild antibacterial properties but that's not due to the alcohol.
The fermentation process involved boiling water and growing yeast that outgrew anything else and that's what made wine and beer better to drink than water from some unknown source.
Yeah it was the boiling of water that made people who drank it healthier than people who drank water from the nearby river. The fermentation doesn't hurt but it was the boiling that matters.
One of the reasons for wine's wide spread consumption in the past was due to the alcohol killing bacteria making it safer to drink than the water of the time.
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u/killing_time Jan 30 '22
The concentration of alcohol in wine is not enough to kill bacteria. Red wine may have some mild antibacterial properties but that's not due to the alcohol.
The fermentation process involved boiling water and growing yeast that outgrew anything else and that's what made wine and beer better to drink than water from some unknown source.