English Ale and Beer in Shakespeare’s Time
H.A. Monckton offers a taste of the beer of Elizabethan England, a beverage reportedly, ‘dark in colour, not very heavily hopped, and probably rather sweet and vinous’.
'For a quart of ale is a dish for a King'
(A Winter's Tale, IV, 3, 8)
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