Beer history
Posted: Friday Apr 29, 2005 10:34 am
Here's an interesting excerpt I read last night from Geoffrey Blainey's A Very Short History of the World:
In many European lands the grain, especially barley, was also used for brewing beer. In England home-brewed beer, drunk at every meal, was almost as essential as bread in the daily diet. Children drank it each day. At a well-known boarding school in London, in 1704 breakfast for the boys consisted of bread and beer, while the poor people living at the workhouse received beer at nearly every meal.
In many European lands the grain, especially barley, was also used for brewing beer. In England home-brewed beer, drunk at every meal, was almost as essential as bread in the daily diet. Children drank it each day. At a well-known boarding school in London, in 1704 breakfast for the boys consisted of bread and beer, while the poor people living at the workhouse received beer at nearly every meal.