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"The beer of today - brewed from malted grain and hops, manufactured by large and often multinational corporations, frequently associated with young adults, sports, and drunkenness - is largely the result of scientific and industrial developments of the nineteenth century. Modern beer, however, has little in common with the drink that carried that name through the European Middle Ages and Renaissance. Looking at a time when beer was often a nutritional necessity, was sometimes used as medicine, could be flavored with everything from the bark of fir trees to thyme and fresh eggs, and was consumed by men, women, and children alike, Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance presents an extraordinarily detailed history of the business, art, and governance of brewing." "Richard W. Unger has written a study of beer as both a product and an economic force in Europe. Drawing from archives in the Low Countries and England to assemble a complete history, Unger describes the transformation of the industry from small-scale production that was a basic part of housewifery to a highly regulated commercial enterprise dominated by the wealthy and overseen by government authorities. Looking at the intersecting technological, economic, cultural, and political changes that influenced the transformation of brewing over centuries, he traces how improvements in technology and in the distribution of information combined to standardize quality, showing how the process of urbanization created the concentrated markets essential for commercial production."--BOOK JACKET.
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Brewing, Beer, History, Brewing industryShowing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
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Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
2013, University of Pennsylvania Press
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Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
2013, University of Pennsylvania Press
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Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
March 2007, University of Pennsylvania Press
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Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
June 2004, University of Pennsylvania Press
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"Beer at the start of the third Christian millennium has little in common with the drink that carried the same or variant names through the European Middle Ages and Renaissance."
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