Beer

Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species. To drink beer is to be human. – Alan D. Eames

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

There is nothing for a case of nerves like a case of beer. – Joan Goldstein

Beware, froth is not beer. – Danish Proverb, quoted in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs, compris

Cold beer & pizza are spiritual. – Betsy CaÃ±as Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com (2008 tweet, @wildthyme)

God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer. – Anne Sexton

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

Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of good beer. – Author Unknown

Wine upon beer is very good cheer; beer upon wine consider with fear. – German Proverb

To prevent beer from being turned by thunder.— Having ascertained that it is perfectly good, draw off entirely in pint pots; then having collected an equal number of railway navigators, distribute accordingly. This will answer in the hottest summer. – “Advice Gratis,” The World of Wit and Humour edited by George Manville Fenn, 187

Buy a man a beer, and he wastes an hour. Teach a man to brew, and he wastes a lifetime. – Charles Papazian

Better weak beer than an empty cask. – Danish Proverb

There are biological fundamentals in a can of beer, a pool room and a whore house. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer. – Dave Barry

Each of us is a beer expert. We know what tastes good. Understanding beer deepens our pleasure, but it all comes down to that first ahhh. – Stephen Dinehart

When ale is in, wit is out. – John Heywood, c.1562

If other Germans drink beer, German students swill it. If one is unable to toss off his fifteen glasses in an hour, it is regarded by his fellows as a sign of puerility only less strong than that he has the scar of no duel on his cheek. – Arthur Handly Marks, “Berlin: Its Bayonets and Its Beer” (Berlin, 1887 June 14th

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. – Author unknown, commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin #happyhour

Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu and seaweed slime. – Edward Abbey

Jack Wootton enjoys cooking, gardening, and long conversations accompanied by a well-brewed pint. – J. Aleksandr Wootton, “About the Author,” www.jackwootton.com