Show took easily to strong orink drink it woo WAS some time about tho the middle at 0 tho the seventeenth century that the practice of adding hops to malt liquor wua was introduced into england and nu wore were sent bent to the king and to the protector of tile tho commonwealth that this wicked weed would apoll the drink arnd endanger the lives of the people historians with a taste for statistics have found that in 1685 1585 there were ag breweries in the city of f london and that their output wets was barrels per annum it would bo be interesting to get eel at the per capita consumption of beer among the english and the carmans in those times which appear to the people of the present as aa having been very hard bard drinking times |