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Hi everybody, from Wondery, I'm Patrick Weiman.

Welcome to another episode of Tides of History.

Thanks for joining me.

We've got a great guest for you here today.

She is the John R. Hubbard Chair in British History and Professor Emerita of History at

the University of Southern California.

She has written and edited numerous books, including the Oxford Handbook of Women in Gender

in Medieval Europe, a medieval life, Sicily a Penefator of Bridgestock, and my personal

favorite, Aill Beer and Brewsters in England.

Women's work in a changing world, 1300 to 1600.

She also literally taught me everything I know about how to teach history.

Professor Judith Bennett, thank you so much for joining me.

Thank you Patrick, it's a pleasure to be here.

I want to start by talking about one of my very favorite topics, which is beer.

So this isn't out of the blue because, as I mentioned, you wrote a really fantastic book

on this topic a while back called Aill Beer and Brewsters.

So what were medieval Aill and Beer like in comparison to our modern tastes and why were

they important in medieval society?

Well, like you, I like beer, but medieval beer and Aill were very different from what

you and I pull out of the fridge.

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