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[Don Bowen KI6DIU <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

This came to me from another list.

http://www.fosters.com.au/enjoy/beer/history_of_beer.htm#1400

The American statesman & scientist Benjamin Franklin once quip'd that beer 
is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy ;-) In reading from the 
site url above I'd have to say that most everybody in the 1400/1700's took 
the pursuit of happiness as need to quaff a goodly portion of beer as often 
as they were able. Some example's are below

           CT
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At the end of the 17th century, the weekly allowance for pupils of all ages 
at one English school was two bottles a day. Beer was a good deal safer and 
more palatable than the available drinking water which was often drawn from 
polluted rivers. And beer was also common in the workplace. The American 
scientist and statesman, Benjamin Franklin, who lived in London from 
1757-1774, recorded the daily beer consumption in a London printing house 
which he visited. The employees each had a pint before breakfast, a pint 
between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint at six o'clock and a 
pint when they finished work.


Ladies-in-waiting at the court of Henry VII were allowed a gallon of beer 
for breakfast alone.


The Dean of St Pauls, in the 16th century, is credited with the invention 
of bottled ale. Dr Alexander Norwell put ale in a bottle when he went 
fishing and left the bottle in the grass. Returning some years later he 
found the cork came away with an explosion but the taste and quality of the 
ale was still good.
European beer first arrived in America with Christopher Columbus' ships. On 
his last voyage to America in 1502, Columbus found the natives of Central 
America making a first-rate brew "of maize, resembling English beer". The 
Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth Rock, instead of further south as 
planned, partly because they were out of beer.
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Don Bowen              Awl Knotted Up                       KI6DIU
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