num_pages: 192
description: In 1875, three young men from landed families purchased a small York brewery and a handful of public houses, and set up in business without much knowledge of their chosen career. In 1879 they began their office diary as a means of communicating with one another and continued it for the next 15 years until, tired of their commercial venture, they returned to their lives as country gentlemen.The diary is a record and window on the lives of young gentlemen pursuing a trade at the opposite end of the social scale from their own origins and shows how they slowly acquired wisdom and judgement in the process. It is also a commentary on themselves in their own words on their own lifestyles.
language: English
title: The Brewer's Tale: A History of Ale in Yorkshire
titlecomplete: The Brewer's Tale: A History of Ale in Yorkshire
publisher: I.B.Tauris