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Country house brewing in England, 1500-1900 /
Until the 18th 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 b...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Rio Grande, Ohio :
Hambledon Press,
1996.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Until the 18th 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 Charlecote), their habitual conversion to other uses has allowed them to be ignored. Yet they are distinctive buildings - as much part of a country house as. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 311 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-305) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780826437532 0826437532 9781474210003 1474210007 |