Since Oktoberfest is just right around the corner, here’s
something to booze you up...
Beer, surely, is a gift of God, one that brings together yeast and
vegetation (in the shape of barley and hops) in a drink that has been enjoyed
for 8,000 years, a beverage that has soothed fevered brows, nourished the
hungry, and coupled friendly and unfriendly alike—it’s even seen men off into
battle. “No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer,” said
John Churchill, the first duke of Marlborough (1650–1722), a great British
tactician and a forebear of the even more celebrated Winston.
Queen Victoria (1819–1901) was another who recognized the merit of
beer: “Give my people plenty of beer, good beer and cheap beer, and you will
have no revolution among them.” With these sentiments, the redoubtable monarch
echoed the enthusiasm of the Athenian tragedian Euripides (484 – 406 BC):
The
man that isn’t jolly after drinking
Is
just a driveling idiot, to my thinking.
Cheers!!!
[source: Tap Into the Art and Science
of Brewing]
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