When life gives you lemons, go ride Lemonade!
As a homebrewer I appreciate interesting comments and quotes on beer. I hope you enjoy these as much as I did. They're best with a pint of your favorite beer.
Many of these are from "The Homebrewer's Recipe Guide" by Patrick Higgins, Maura Kate Kilgore & Paul Hertlein.
Beer: Helping ugly people have sex since 3000 B. C. -
Beer is the drink of those who think, and feel no fear or fetter, who do not drink
to senseless sink, but drink to feel better. -
I spend most of my money on beer, the rest I just waste. -
A head brewer needs a fermentation degree. A beer need a degree of fermentation.
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My girlfriend asked me to stop drinking... I'll miss her. -
24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not. -
Remember "I" before "E" except in Budweiser. -
It takes beer to make a thirst worthwhile. -
Work is the curse of the drinking class. -
I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy. -
Would I were in an alehouse in London. -
This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and
beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer. -
There are more old drunks than old doctors. -
For a quart of ale is a dish for a king. -
The best beer is where priests go to drink. -
"What is your best, your very best, ale a glass?" "Two pence halfpenny," says the
landlord, "is the price of the Genuine Stunning Ale." "Then," says I, producing
the money, "just draw me a glass of the Genuine Stunning, if you please, with a good
head on it." -
I asked these Indians: "Do men ever make Chicha?" My question was met with gales
of laughter. The women howled. Bent over in hilarity, one replied, "Men can't brew. Chicha
made by men would only make gas in the belly. You are a funny man! Beer is women's
work." -
No children without sex, no drunkenness without beer. -
A glass of bitter or pale ale, taken with the principal meal of the day, does more
good and less harm than any medicine the physician can prescribe. -
It puts eloquence in an orator, it will make the philosopher talk profoundly... it
is a great friend to the Truth... it will put courage in a coward... it is the seal
to a bargain... it is the nourisher of mankind. -
Ale, not beer, in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentleman
of letters, worthy of the name, to drink. -
When schoolboy friends meet once again, who have not met for years. Say, over what
will they sit down and talk of their careers. Your "whishy-
Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. -
Make the long night shorter, forgetting not, good stout old English porter. -
I use no Porter ... in my family, but such as is made in America: both these articles
may now be purchased of an excellent quality. -
I have received delegations of working men who come, apparently speaking of the utmost
sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine hardship to be deprived
of their beer. -
Such power hast beer. The heart which grief hath one unfailing remedy, The Tankard.
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Of doctors and medicines we have more than enough. What you may, for the love of
God, send is some large quantity of beer. -
They who drink beer will think beer. -
I think this would be a good time for a beer. -
The mouth of a perfectly happy man is filled with beer. -
Give me a woman who truly loves beer and I will conquer the world. -
'Taws a women who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for
it. -
What's made Milwaukee famous made a loser out of me. -
Mike Hammer drinks beer because I can't spell Cognac. -
And in my innocence, I once thought that beer drinking in England was carried to
excess, but I was mistaken, English men are in the infant class; in the ABC's in
acquiring a German's education in the practice of beer drinking. -
The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children, and therefore to some extent women,
from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering
places they ought to be. -
A woman is a lot like a beer. They smell good, they look good, and you'd step over
your own mother to get one. -
Up to the age of forty, eating is beneficial; after forty, drinking. -
They're drinkin' home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin' there got all
shook up. -
Listening to someone who brews their own beer is like listening to a religious fanatic
talk about the day he saw the light. -
Beer was not made to be moralized about, but to be drunk. -
Keep your libraries, keep your penal institutions, keep your insane asylums...give
me beer. You think man needs rule, man needs beer. The world does not need morals,
it needs beer. It does not need your lectures and charity. The souls of men have
been fed with indigestibles, but the soul could make use of beer. -
For when the lepers she nursed implored her for beer and there was none to be had,
she changed the water which was used for the bath into an excellent beer, by the
sheer strength of her blessing, and dealt it out to the thirsty in plenty. -
The selling of bad beer is a crime against Christian love. -
I'll make it felony to drink small beer. -
Beer isn't just beer...Beer needs a home. -
I throw a little dry malt, which is left to purpose on top of the mash, with a handful
of salt, to keep the whiches from it, and then cover it up. -
I wish we could all have good luck, all the time! I wish we had wings! I wish rain
water was beer! -
Life alas, is very drear. Up with the glass, down with the beer. -
The immense importance of a pint of ale to a common person should never be overlooked.
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I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety. -
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. -
Mother's in the kitchen washing out the jugs,
Sister's in the pantry bottling the suds,
Father's in the cellar mixing up the hops,
Johnny's on the front porch watching for the cops. -
All the buildup and hype, everything else, is foam. The game is the beer. -
Do not cease to drink beer, to eat, to intoxicate thyself, to make love and celebrate
the good days. -
It is my design to die in a brewhouse; let ale be placed in my mouth when I am expiring,
that when the chorus of angels come, they may say, "Be God propitious to this drinker."
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I have total irreverence for anything connected with society, except that which makes
the road safer, the beer stronger, and the old men and women warmer in the winter
and happier in the summer. -
They who have drunk beer, fall on their back, but there is a peculiarity in the effects
of the drink made from barley, for they that get drunk on other intoxicating liquors
fall on all parts of their body, they fall on the left side, on the right side, on
their faces, and and on their backs. But it is only those who get drunk on beer
that fall on their backs with their faces upward. -
Filled with mingled cream and amber
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chamber of my brain,
Quaintest thoughts, queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away:
What care I how time advances?
I am drinking ale today. -
Now, trice welcome Christmas!
which brings us good cheer;
mince pies and plum pudding;
strong Ale and strong Beer. -
I think 49 Guinnesses is piggish. -
He who drinks beer sleeps well. He who sleeps well cannot sin. He who does not
sin goes to heaven. Amen. -
What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia? -
Fermentation and Civilization are inseparable. -
God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves
vegetation. -
From man's sweat and God's love, beer came into the world. -