Well, there used to be a tradition in Wales - "cwrw'r Achos", "the beer of the Cause". As it was explained to me, it was a small beer brewed to raise funds for chapels. Pre-Victorian, I think. Probably not actually served IN the chapels.

The Drovers Arms here in town is in a terrace, adjoined to the Congregationalist Chapel's 'school room' (vestry / Sunday School room) and there used to be a hatch between the two. The pub would pass food *and drink* into the school room at lunchtime on Sunday for the visiting preacher.

Back to hymns, there's a well known singer here in Wales who, for a long time, wouldn't sing hymns in pubs as a matter of principle but he's changed his mind, partly because he now accepts that some hymns are firmly entrenched as 'popular' songs ('folk'). I also know for a fact that Cwm Rhondda was nearly left out of a new hymn book in Wales a few years back because most of the Editorial committee thought it had been corrupted by use in the rugby terraces. As it happens, the member in charge of taking the final proof to the printer didn't agree ... and somehow Cwm Rhondda 'slipped in'.

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