Of course not! In the French translation, the famous five are French children (Annie, Claude, Mick and François). So when they drink beer, they are French drinkers! In fact, in 1960-70, drink a bit of alcohol was an usage admitted for young boys. Now it's different. And the ginger beer was completely unknown in France.this is the conspiracy of continentals to portray all English as irreligious beer-drinkers,
And about the deleting of the church scene, it's just an another act of the ordinary French atheism against christianity.