Country House Brewing in England, 1500-1900

by Pamela A. Sambrook

Until the eighteenth century or even later, beer was the staple drink of most men and women at all levels of society. Tea and coffee were expensive luxuries while water might well carry disease. To supply the needs of both owners and servants, every country house with an accessible source of water had a brewhouse, usually close at hand. Although many of the brewhouses still stand, in some cases with the original brewing vessels (as at Lacock and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852851279
• ISBN13: 9781852851279
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.8" x 10.2"