“Some miners [in the town where he started his journalism career] would have 20 pints after a hard day in the mine. Now that we sit behind computers all day, this is down to 18 or 19 pints.” — Michael Jackson

“No microbrewer in his right mind should make wheat beer. Five years from now it will be dead (as a commercial product).” — Joe Owades, April 1987

“They told me this story while we were waiting for an up-train. I supplied the beer. The tale was cheap at a gallon and a half.” — Rudyard Kipling, The Three Musketeers

“Mankind: The animal that fears the future and desires fermented beverages.” — Brillat Savarin

“The day before election day they were still bowing their necks to the Anti-Saloon League, but two days later they were howling for beer and by the end of the year they were also howling for whisky, gin and rum.” — H. L. Mencken (on the U.S. congress & election of 1932)

“The troubles of our proud and angry dust, are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must, shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.” — A.E. Housman

“And so, you see, ’twas beautiful ale, and I wished to value his kindness…and not to be so ill-mannered as to drink only a thimbleful, which would have been insulting the man’s generosity. And so I used to eat a lot of salt fish afore going, and then by the time I got there I was as dry as a lime-basket so thorough dry that ale would slip-ah, ‘twould slip down sweet! Happy times! Heavenly times! Such lovely drunks as I used to have at that house!” — Thomas Hardy, Far From The Maddening Crowd

“A beer in the hand is worth two in the case.” — Walter Breidenstein

“O Beer! O Hodgson, Guinness, Allsopp, Bass! Names that should be on every infant’s tongue.” — C.V. Calverley

“The West Coast, particularly the northern part, is the most youthful and energetic part of the USA. It’s almost as if the people are reflected in the beer. That might sound a slightly poetic way of looking at it, but I think it’s true.” — Michael Jackson