I heard a podcast (sadly hidden behind another wonderful platform startup's paywall) featuring Judith Bennett, who is a scholar on this topic, and IIRC she make

I heard a podcast (sadly hidden behind another wonderful platform startup's paywall) featuring Judith Bennett, who is a scholar on this topic, and IIRC she makes the argument that what really drove women out of brewing was access to capital and to markets. When brewing was a smalltime village affair, it was easy for women to participate, because they would make beer for their local markets and their family. The beer didn't last very long, partly because they didn't have hops yet, so transporting it over long distances wasn't really possible. As hops were adopted, people started transporting beer over longer distances, because it kept better. Unfortunately, at the time, it wasn't acceptable or safe for women to travel long distances, which meant that men tended to step in more. Additionally, larger batches and longer distances meant raising capital was more important. At the time, women couldn't really enter contracts from what I remember, so the husband had step in there as well. It seems like we suspect that women were often doing the real brewing, but under their husbands name, but over time this resulted in brewing turning into men's work. The podcast is Tides of History (which I strongly recommend), and Bennet's book (which I have not read) is called Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600.