The Beer Factory
Factory in Blacktown

Beer is also as old as bread in fact it is probable that either beer or bread may have been a byproduct of the other. According to archaeologists, beebread’ was known in many eras. In ancient Babylon, the women brewers were also priestesses. These provisions covered the sale of beer and were designed to protect the consumer. The punishment of brief measure by an innkeeper was drowning. It also records that beer was sipped through a straw. The Egyptian Era Some 5,00 years ago in Egypt, beer was already an urgent food item in the daily diet. It was made from lightly baked barley bread, and also was worn as a sacrament. Beer was the natural drink of the country, as well as being impaired as medicine. The Egyptians also provided their deceased with food and beer. It is recorded that a similar amount was also offered to appease the gods when they became angry. The Greek and Roman Era It was the Egyptians who reputedly taught the Greeks how to brew beer. The Romans then showed the wild tribes in Britain the art of brewing. King Arthur served his Knights of the Round Table with beer called bragged. Being the cooks, they had responsibility for beer that was regarded as food drink’. When he went to France in 1158 to seek the hand of a French princess for Prince Henry of England, he took considerable barrels of British ale as gifts. By the last of the century, beer had almost wholly replaced the worn English sweet ale, and was being exported to Europe. Records dating back to the 15th century disclose that almost half of the ships’ cargoes taken across the North Sea and the Baltic Sea were barrels of beer. Until the middle of the 16th century, beer making was mainly a family operation and had small commercial application. However, it was certainly an integral segment of everyday diet. On his final voyage to America in 1502, Columbus found the natives of Central America making a first rate brew of maize, resembling English beer. Beer was a good deal safer and more palatable than the available drinking water that was often drawn from polluted rivers. The American scientist and statesman, Benjamin Franklin, who lived in London from 17571774, recorded the daily beer consumption in a London printing house that he visited. The employees each had a pint before breakfast, a pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint at six o’clock and a pint when they finished work.