“Alcohol is good for you. My grandfather proved it irrevocably. He drank two quarts of booze every mature day of his life and lived to the age of 103. I was at the cremation – that fire would not go out.” — Dave Astor

“Brewers enjoy working to make beer as much as drinking beer instead of working.” — Harold Rudolph

“Beer … because none of the world’s problems were ever solved with white wine.” — Karl Wichmann

“When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee’s house some day.” — Congolese Proverb

“I have no pain, dear mother, now, but oh! I am so dry. Connect me to a brewery. And leave me there to die.” — parody of Edward Farmer, The Collier’s Dying Child, 1870

“Who does not know beer, does not know what is good. Beer makes the home pleasant.” — Sumerian proverb

“I have seen the love stars shining
Through bronze hair across my face.
I have seen white bosoms heaving
Though a wisp of open lace;
But one sight is dear to memory,
And it seemeth brighter far—
Just a guttered candles flicker
On a tankard on a bar. ”
— John Barr

“For secular people who favor a wall of separation between church and tavern, beer is evidence that nature wants us to be.” — George F. Will

“Beer is a health food.” — George F. Will

“Be of good cheer, drink only great beer.” — Jay Brooks