Scientific and archeological evidence, researchers strongly believe that beer was first produced in the late fourth millennium BC by the Sumerian in Southern Babylonia.
Brewing practices had spread to Rome during Caesar’s reign and into other parts of Europe. Beer brewing was an art brought from Low Countries, perhaps by soldiers or by camp followers brewing for them, coming back to England after foreign service at the beginning of the fifteenth century.
Hopped beer must have been frequently drunk in London during the early decades of the 15th century, probably as a result of a large foreign contingent in the city, or just outside its boundaries.
The use of hop in brewing was recognized in England as early as 1440, even of the plant not actually grown here.
The beer brewers had become strongly organized in London and Canterbury by the early sixteenth century.
The industrialization of brewing began in the eighteenth century in London, where increased urbanization and concentrated population growth provided a ready market for beer produced on large scale.
Beer brewing in England
