Phil Harding of Time Team would heartily agree:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61lfmiAMC84 What make a good pub.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFg2Nnx8z34 Drinks Saxon recipe ale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPF6NWDFPBQ Phil loves his beer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaISF89g0T4 Phil Harding pulling a Hop Back pint
After you’ve enjoyed these snippets, browse through the listing of over 200 Time Team archaeological digs between 1995 and 2005.
I remember one episode where he was dumbfounded that the only local village had no pub. :^)