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

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

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