Our… good Home-brewed Beer — which has been very deservedly called “Liquid Bread,” is preferable to any other Beverage during Dinner or Supper… – William Kitchiner (1775–1827), “Wine,” The Art of Invigorating and Prolong

A strong and manly homebrew of the best language in the world. – Elisha Kent Kane, 1853

This is no mere beverage, this glass of beer…. It is the grains of the earth growing in the ground under the blazing sun and the night mists of the plains girdling the planet, and of barley seed grown rich and golden. – Frederic A. Birmingham

The great war of 1870 was not between the Germans and the French, but between beer and red wine. When the wine-flask came in contact with the beer-barrel, it was natural for the glass to be shattered. – Arthur Handly Marks, “Berlin: Its Bayonets and Its Beer” (Berlin, 1887 June 14th