Education in Middle Earth

[Alfirin]

Originally Posted by Bêthberry

One wonders if each hobbit farm produced its own beer as I think once was done in English farming communities. Now brewing is a fine art!

It's quite possible. In pre-pasterization there was a limit to how far you could ship beer before it began to spoil so most, if not all, of the Shire's beer was likey locally produced. Pippin also mentions his desire to have stopped at the Golden Perch on the ground that they have "the best beer in the West farthing" (or something like that" which seems to indicate that that place, at least has beer that is likey locally produced, or at least in some way different from other beers Pippin has drunk.