Chronicling 1,000 years of brewing in East Anglia

Chronicling 1,000 years of brewing in East Anglia

An exhibition has opened at Ely Museum, in Cambridgeshire, charting a history of brewing in East Anglia since Anglo Saxon times. Making alcoholic drinks out of fermented grain has a long history in East Anglia, from prehistory and the Vikings through to the many small inns and pubs that brewed their own beer. Then family breweries came along, like Legge and Hall and Harlock, then the increasingly large and commercial companies who ran the Forehi…