Women and Beer 3 - History

I'd already written a couple of blogs about the role of women and brewing/selling beer a while ago, in The Beer Goddess and in Brewsters and Witchcraft?  However, I've fairly recently bought the paperback book The Devil's in the Draught Lines (Dr Christina Wade, Campaign for Real Ale Ltd, 2024), since which was published an article by the same author in CAMRA's BEER magazine Summer 2024 called The Ancient History of the British Alewife.

Basically, Dr Wade knows a helluva lot about the history of beer, is multi-qualified, including being a beer judge, and I'm guessing that part of her doctorate, or maybe her M.Phil, or both, included research about the history of women in brewing and selling beer, because there is so much specific information about brewsters (female brewers) and licencees! Also, she records interviews with many contemporary brewsters. In addition, she has her own website called braciatrix, which includes links to her book, and is about women and beer, to precis it... 😕 

If you are a CAMRA member you can access the BEER article at the website.

Or buy the book, or just read my blog 1 and  blog 2, a bit simpler/less info 😉 Seriously though, I can't compete, so buy the book, it's chock full of data, cheers!