Is it time for beer already

Granted: it is not a question that will change the world, but it is a question on everyone's lips. And the answer to the question "Is it already time for beer?" has been answered, over the centuries, in different ways. We'd like to take you on a little history tour, with a tasty glass of beer with it!

Beer with breakfast - and for breakfast

The question "Is it time for beer yet?" was an unnecessary question several centuries ago an unnecessary question: it was always time for beer. Indeed, beer was simply considered a foodstuff. The expression "a glass of beer equals to a brown cheese sandwich" did not come out of the blue!

For example, anyone in sixteenth-century Amsterdam, seventeenth or eighteenth century asked the question "Is it already time for beer?" did did so even before breakfast. An article on Amsterdam Table Manners that appeared recently reports that the Amsterdammer used to breakfast with herring and beer. They hardly touched plates or cutlery, incidentally. Not only is herring and beer a fine combination: the beer contained, especially in those days, a lot of unfermented sugars that came from the grain. were. And sugar is an important fuel for the human body: count out of your profits!

"Is it time for beer yet?" was certainly asked more often during the day asked in those days. For even at lunch - which was then the main meal of the day - and supper they served beer as an accompanying drink. Not because you would get sick from the water - the city water did not become so tainted until the nineteenth century so tainted that drinking it was unwise - but because it contained extra nutrients.

England

Three pubs still exist in London that maintain the time-honored tradition of "the morning pint. See the article"When London's pubs were full at 7 PM," which nicely describes that historical fact described. In part, those pubs open so early to serve people coming off the night shift coming off the night shift, but beer was simply part of breakfast a century ago. To this day, certain occupational groups are allowed through their collective bargaining agreements to drink beer with breakfast: especially construction workers and haulers. For them, it is it is partly tradition, and especially the tradition of extra nutrients, that makes that makes it possible.

You can find these pubs (and all pubs that used to also open this early opened) further often near a market. This was where deals were made and business done at the crack of dawn, deals were made and business concluded - a pub had to be had to be open. The question "Is it time for beer yet?" was as nonsensical as the question "Shall we take a breath? The thirsty market vendors, their staff and patrons saw a pint of beer at seven in the morning more like a beer at lunch. That's how it was back then!

Alcohol-free beer

Anyone who asks the question today "Is it time for beer yet? sometimes gets the answer "it's definitely five o'clock somewhere. And what we mean by 'the five is in the clock' is that for a long time it was customary to go after work have a quick glass of beer at your local pub. You came from work and were on your way home, mother the wife and the hot meal: catch up with your friends and acquaintances in the pub! There was no internet and the freshest news you heard at the bar. During the day you might drink a glass of beer with your lunch, but certainly in the 1980s that became less and less common. Working with a swig on, we obviously don't do that anymore.

Another answer to the question "Is it time for beer yet? is: yes it is! Now that there is a rich, quality and diverse range of non-alcoholic beers available, you can drink beer at lunch, in the afternoon and, as far as we're concerned, at breakfast. It is, we want to say, always time for beer - but it doesn't always have to have alcohol in it! 

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