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  • From: Don Bowen KI6DIU <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Homestead] History of beer
  • Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:16:38 -0800

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

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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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