“Nothing ever tasted better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to than more of the same.” — Hugh Hood
“Nothing ever tasted better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to than more of the same.” — Hugh Hood
“I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills one-third of our citizens and ruins their families.” — Thomas Jefferson; on beer, 1816
“A little bit of beer is divine medicine.” — Paracelsus, Greek physician
“The awe with which man has regarded this natural process finds spontaneous expression in the fact the animating essence produced by fermentation is identified in language with the essence of human life, both being designated by the term ‘spirit.’” — J.P. Arnold, 1933
“Listening to someone who brews his own beer is like listening to a religious fanatic talk about the day he saw the light.” — Ross Murray, Montreal Gazette
“Mother’s in the kitchen washing out the jugs. Sister’s in the pantry bottling the suds. Father’s in the cellar mixin’ up the hops. Johnny’s on the front porch watchin’ for the cops.” — Prohibition song
“There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says ‘Good people drink good beer.’ Which is true, then as now. Just look around you in any public barroom and you will quickly see: Bad people drink bad beer. Think about it.” — Hunter S. Thompson
“Chicba, corn beer, was the vehicle that linked man to his gods through the fecundity of the earth.” — Gustravo Otero, 1951
“To stare too intently at a glass of beer, or sniff it too obviously, in a bar or pub can be a questionable enterprise, but those are the first steps in appreciation. All food and drink is enjoyed with the eyes and nose as well as the mouth, and beer is no exception.” — Michael Jackson, New World Guide To Beer
“Ale is made of malte and water; and they the whiche do put any other thynge to ale than is rehersed, except yest, barme or godesgood, doth sophysticat theyr ale.” — Andrew Boorde, A Compendious Regyment or a Dyetary of Helth, 1542