Beer history

[beermeister]

Here's an interesting excerpt I read last night from Geoffrey Blainey's A Very Short History of the World:

In many European lands the grain, especially barley, was also used for brewing beer. In England home-brewed beer, drunk at every meal, was almost as essential as bread in the daily diet. Children drank it each day. At a well-known boarding school in London, in 1704 breakfast for the boys consisted of bread and beer, while the poor people living at the workhouse received beer at nearly every meal.

[gregb]

Beer for Brekky eh? - ahh the good olde days.

Greg.

[Antsvb]

Anybody else had beer on their morning ceral?
I have a mate that has tried it.