Beer became popular in Western Europe where the Britons, the Germans, the Dutch and the Belgians live today. In Western Europe, beer was considered very important during the Middle Ages.
For centuries, housewives brewed it themselves, at first at home, but later on because of fire danger they brewed it in the public bakeries and breweries of the towns and cities. This development let to the birth of small artisans’ breweries that made beer for a limited number of customers.