The Masters of the Barley

The Masters of the Barley is a series of comics created by Jean Van Hamme and illustrated by Francis Vallès. This series tells the adventures of Steenfort family over several generations, creating a brewery craft in the Belgian Brabant half the XIX th century to the creation of a multinational beer with headquarters in the United States the dawn of the year 2000. It blends precise documentation on the tradition of brewing craft a historico-economic background back, which transcribes well the evolution of the western world for a century through the example breweries, and all kinds of purely fictional adventures that happen to different characters. 

Each volume follows a particular family members at a key moment in his life and the history of Steenfort breweries. Generally, it takes 25 years between episodes, which does not prevent some characters to appear in several volumes a row.
The latest volume, The Steenfort , is a collection of short stories that shed light on different events occurring between each other tomes.

ENG

The Masters of the Barley 01 - Charles.7z | 37 MB | LINK: http://sh.st/TW8km
The Masters of the Barley 02 - Margrit.7z | 36 MB | LINK: http://sh.st/TW8cU

FRA

Les Maitres De L.Orge V1 #1 (of 8) (1992).pdf | 34 MB | LINK: http://sh.st/YeJpl
Les Maitres De L.Orge V2 #2 (of 8) (1993).pdf | 34 MB | LINK: http://sh.st/YeJkd
Les Maitres De L.Orge V3 #3 (of 8) (1994).pdf | 35 MB | LINK: http://sh.st/YeJbG
Les Maitres De L.Orge V4 #4 (of 8) (1995).pdf | 34 MB | LINK: http://sh.st/YeJQL
Les Maitres De L.Orge V5 #5 (of 8) (1996).pdf | 35 MB | LINK: http://sh.st/YeJTw
Les Maitres De L.Orge V6 #6 (of 8) (1997).pdf | 33 MB | LINK: http://sh.st/YeJO2
Les Maitres De L.Orge V7 #7 (of 8) (1998).pdf | 34 MB | LINK: http://sh.st/YeJDa
Les Maitres De L.Orge V8 #8 (of 8) (1999).pdf | 33 MB | LINK: http://sh.st/YeJH0