This is no mere beverage, this glass of beer.... It is the grains

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

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