Hi, Douglas,
Do you have the book's title and/or author and/or publisher of the Bath beer
book?
Thanks,
Judy
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From: "Douglas Clark" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 1:52 PM
Subject: Important information
>A couple of weeks ago I bought and read a book on drinking over the ages in
> Bath written by a couple of local historians. The facts were so remarkable
> that I checked them with one of the authors yesterday. The truth is
>
> that before machines came in beer was much stronger than it is nowadays
> (except for small beer mainly brewed for children) and because there was
> no
> tea, coffee or drinkable water every one of us peasants drank about ten
> pints a day. When the Industrial Revolution started up and machines came
> in
> the brewers were requested to damp the strength of their beer down and did
> so. Up till then everybody had spent most of the day in a very merry
> state.
> This was because clear heads were required to operate machines. So it
> really
> was Merry Olde England. Beer nowadays is about 4% so it must have been
> around 6%. As for gin it came in later.
>
> Douglas Clark, Bath, Somerset, England ....
> http://www.dgdclynx.plus.com
>
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