“There is food in beer, but there is no beer in food. Beer is like liquid bread — it provides the same necessary nutrients. I say, just lay off the food.” — Jim Koch

“I make my beers the way I like them and it happens that a lot of other people like them that way too.” — Bert Grant

“Bad beer is like bad art — if you endure enough of it, eventually you forget the alternatives.” — Stephen Greenleaf

“Good beer is the basis of true temperance.” — The Daily Express, 1919

“To clink glasses of a freshly made, seasonal beer, preferably in a pub or garden, with friends and perhaps new acquaintances, is a ritual that makes every participant feel good. We may not rationalize this at the time, but it gives us a sense of place in our common community and our time in the tides of life on earth. This is a way to value beer and treat it with respect.” — Michael Jackson

“Why, we’ll smoke and drink our beer. For I like a drop of good beer, I does. I’ze fond of good beer, I is. Let gentlemen fine sit down to their wine. But we’ll all of us here stick to our beer.” — Old Somersetshire English song

“Heaven! that’s another tale. Mightn’t let me chew there. Gotta have me a pot of ale; would I like the brew there?” — Robert Service, Grandad

“And many a skeleton shook his head. ‘Instead of preaching forty year!’ My neighbor Parson Thirdly said, ‘I wish I’d stuck to pipes and beer.’” — Thomas Hardy, Channel Firing, 1914

Beer once tasted like something. It was made out of malt and hops and yeast and pure filtered water… Nowadays it is often made of such gook as rice and corn grits… nothing but dirty water. It’s so light and clear it’s nothing… ignoble swill.” — Charles McCabe, 1960

“A full beer is a perfect beer.” — Tim Russman