Beer was a big part of life in Europe in 1380. In the city of Wrocław, which is now in Poland, beer was so important that it sparked a war. Building and maintaining a brewery was quite expensive, and the only entities that could afford to do it were the government and the church.
Wrocław had its municipal brewery, right underneath the Town Hall. The city government, called the Rata, sold beer and taxed it, too. But the monks on the nearby island of Ostrów Tumski made beer as…The post When a City and a Bishop Went to War Over Beer appeared first on FeedBox.