I've been taught that, for the most part, Northern Europeans drank beer in the medieval and early modern era, and Southern Europeans drank wine. Did Muslims drink wine as well, or were bans on alcohol in place and enforced?
In some areas it was banned and in others it was looked down upon, put some people did drink in the medieval Islamic world. Believe it or not, the Islamic world used to be a lot more liberal than it is now (Example- men and women would bathe together in Turkish bath houses/ Hammams) and some people would drink wine, but not get drunk. The reason alcohol is banned in Islam is because it alters your state of mind and causes you to be destructive. I (as a Muslim) sometimes take a sip of some Bacardi and its all good. Alcohol in Islam is one of those things that you need to understand the reasoning behind to see what it really is.
As The_BarHuma said...Andalusia, or Islamic Spain, was famous for its wine and used to export it throughout the Mediterranean and Europe. The more conservative jurists back east (in Damascus or Baghdad, for example) frowned upon it at times. It was also thought by some that the more conservative armies of the Almohads and Almoravids were successful in taking over Andalusia because of the 'decadence' of the Caliphate of Cordoba.
To this day, they still make some pretty good wine in Morocco but it's mostly exported or consumed by tourists.
Of course it was banned.....several alcoholic beverages were immensely popular.