@Sheril
Oh come off it! Nobody stood around selling beer in a pointy hat at an English market in the Middle Ages. Women brewed ALE in farmhouses and manor houses, and distributed it to servants and workers. If you went to a market you would buy and drink ale in an inn. Most male brewers were monks, and they were not in competition with female brewers. The "pointy hats" in the picture look like traditional Welsh dress, not medieval costume. Associating female brewers with witchcraft is fantasy.