From: Don Bowen KI6DIU <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Homestead] History of beer
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:28:57 -0800
At 12/20/2007, you wrote:
> Ladies-in-waiting at the court of Henry VII were allowed a gallon
> of beer
> for breakfast alone.
One might conjecture that this made the ladies both voluptuous and
compliant.
I have a book I will give you the next time we visit over a glass of good
brew.
"You Brew Good Beer: A History of Small-Scale Brewing"
It is about the small scale brewing of England. Most was in the Abbys and
the daily allotment sometimes was over three gallons. Remember the portly
Friar Tuck of Robin Hood legend?