“On the chest of a barmaid in Sale, were tattooed the prices of ale. And on her behind, for the sake of the blind, was the same information in Braille!”

“Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.” — Jonathan Swift

“I don’t drink beer like a girl.” — Cornelia Corey, 2001 Beerdrinker of the Year

“They didn’t trademark everything back then. Now someone farts and they put a TM after it. Even Miller Lite says ‘A Fine Pilsener Beer’ on the label. It is a crime.” — Michael Jackson

“Cerevisiam Bibat! (drink beer for health)” — St. Hildegard von Bingen, 1150 CE

“Drink beer, the custom of the land! Beer he drank, seven goblets. His spirit was loosened, he became hilarious. His heart became glad and his face shone.” — Epic of Gilgamesh, 1200 BCE

“With hekt (beer) the Ka (spirit) is kept in balance with the liver and blood — Hekt is the liquid of happy blood and body.” — Ancient Egyptian Physician

“It’s extraordinary how friendly you can make a lot of people on a couple bottles of beer.” — Baron Frankenstein, in 1931 film “Frankenstein”

“Brewing is the art of feeding sugar to yeast.” — Jeff Frane, 1994, Zymurgy

“All of the buildup and hype, everything else, is foam. The game is the beer.” — Marv Levy, football coach