要说，小龙虾和什么最配，那必须是啤酒呀。你可能不知道的是，这玩意儿竟然拯救过世界。
What is the best partner for crayfish, it must be beer. What you may not know is that beer has actually saved our world.
这还得从当时让人闻风丧胆的黑死病，小名又叫鼠疫说起。黑死病的威力可比当下的新冠肺炎凶猛的多，持续时间长达300多年，直接干掉欧洲近一半的人口。
This should be started from the frightening disease, which is the Black Death, also called the Pestis. The power of the Black Death is more serious than current Covid-19, which lasts for more than 300 years and directly kills nearly half of the human beings in Europe.
当时的人们活到6岁的可能性只有50%，对，只想简简单单活着长大也是一种奢望。战乱，瘟疫等会分分钟要人性命，还有一个隐藏的杀手，那就是水。
At that time, there is only 50% chance to live to 6 years old. Yes, it is a luxury to only grow up alive. Wars, plagues, etc. will kill people in minutes. And there is a hidden killer, that is, water.
当时的欧洲还没有完整的下水道排水系统，因此所有的生活和工业垃圾，一股脑的全往河水里倾倒，整个河水就是一大型化粪池。
At that time, Europe did not have a complete sewer drainage system, so all domestic and industrial waste were dumped into the river. It made the whole river to be a big septic tank.
河里的水不敢喝，还不懂得煮沸饮用水消毒的欧洲人找到了最好的解决办法，即喝啤酒。无论男人，女人，甚至幼童，都开始喝啤酒，将啤酒和食物作为获取水分的唯一途径。十六世纪，人均每年要喝掉300升的啤酒，是现在的6倍。而中世纪的人们完全不清楚，将啤酒煮沸后再酿造，仅仅是为了啤酒好喝，却无意之中将致命病菌一并杀死。
Europeans didn’t dare to drink the river water, and didn’t know that it could disinfect the drinking water throw boiling method. They finally found the best solution, that is, drinking beer. Whether men, women, or even young children, start drinking beer, and use beer and food as the only way to get water. In the sixteenth century, each European will drink 300 liters of beer per year, six times that of today. People in the Middle Ages were completely unknown that after boiling the beer, it was brewed just for the good taste of beer, but it killed the deadly bacteria inadvertently.
欧洲人苦恼于啤酒无法长期保存，随时饮用。著名的生物学家巴斯德对啤酒为何会变质进行了研究，最终发现了细菌的存在。由此联想到，细菌会不会让人也生病呢？因此，发现了巴氏杀菌法，奠定了现代医学的基础。
Europeans are troubled that beer cannot be preserved for a long time and they want to drink the beer at any time. The famous biologist Pasteur studied why beer deteriorated and finally discovered the presence of bacteria. From this, does the bacteria make people sick? Therefore, the pasteurization method was discovered, which laid the foundation for modern medicine.
酿造啤酒的基本原料是水，大麦，酵母和酒花，这4种物质，搭配比例的不同，以及原料的品质差异，造成了千万种口味的啤酒。但唯有一条标准永恒不变，那就是干净卫生的水，不仅让啤酒好喝，更能得以长久保存。
The basic ingredients for brewing beer are water, barley, yeast, and hops. Different mix ratios and different quality of the substances, have caused millions of flavors of beer. But there is only one eternal standard unchanged, that is, clean and hygienic water, which not only makes beer taste delicious, but also can be kept for a long time.
