Gales

This study traces a small country brewery in Hampshire from its founding through its first century and a half, covering its early struggles, its expansion, and the years it kept going. The author draws on a large body of primary records to describe the local area as it was before the brewery arrived and as it changed during its existence. Gales is also placed within the wider British brewing trade, allowing its results to be compared with those of the industry as a whole, while the role of one family runs through the whole account.

Two contrasting entrepreneurs receive close attention. The first is George Alexander Gale, whose influence shaped roughly fifty years of the firm's history. The second is the Bowyer family, who guided the business for the following hundred years.

The book is aimed at business, economic, family and local historians.