# @gettymuseum on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CSR0sqenuS0
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34229010-gettymuseum-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/ae71b5be8b.jpg
- **Posted:** 2021-08-07T15:41:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty (@gettymuseum) — https://gondola.cc/gettymuseum

## Caption

True or false: people drank so much beer back then because the water was bad.

Watch as Larisa debunks this common myth, and celebrates the differences between medieval beer and mead.

Happy Mead Day! Larisa is celebrating with the Chimay Grand Reserve Blue from chimay_official and Apple Nectar from redstonemeadery.

🏷: #MeadDay #Medieval #MiddleAges 

Last image: © British Library Board Ms. Additional 27695, fol. 14

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## Tags

meadday, medieval, middleages

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