Beer has been around since the early days of civilization and throughout history there’s never been a shortage of discussion (or consumption) of beer. From Edgar Allen Poe to Homer Simpson there’s a large, diverse collection of famous quotes relating to our favorite beverage – BEER!

“Brewing isn’t just our business, it’s our passion. We’re beer people, cheers!”
– Mark & Pete / Owners, Blue Point Brewing Company

“Fermentation may have been a greater discovery than fire.”
– David Rains Wallace

“Work is the curse of the drinking class.”
– Oscar Wilde

“There can’t be good living, where there is not good drinking.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“The mouth of a perfectly happy man is filled with beer.”
– an Ancient Egyptian saying / 2200 B.C.

“When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.”
– Henny Youngman

“Good people drink good beer.”
– Celtic Saying by Hunter S. Thompson

“We select only top-quality ingredients from all over the world and brew only the freshest, all-natural, unpasteurized beer.”
– Mark Burford / BrewMaster & Owner, Blue Point Brewing Company

“Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.”
- Kaiser Wilhelm

“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
- Benjamin Franklin

“Fill up the goblet, let it swim in foam that overlooks the brim. He that drinks deepest, here’s to him.”
– Charles Cotton / 17th-century Poet

“Why we are here? To tremble at the terrible beauty of the stars, to shed a tear at the perfection of Beethoven’s symphonies and to crack a cold one now and then.”
– David Letterman

“Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer.”
– Frederick The Great

“We started the Blue Point Brewing Company because we wanted to make beer that we would drink.”
– Mark Burford / BrewMaster & Owner, Blue Point Brewing Company

“I think this would be a good time for a beer.”
– Franklin Roosevelt / as he signed the New Deal for the repeal of Prohibition

“A little bit of beer is divine medicine.”
– Paracelsus, Greek Physician

“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
– Ernest Hemingway / For Whom the Bell Tolls

“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts and beer.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Make sure that the beer – four pints a week – goes to the troops that are under-fire, before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.”
-Winston Churchill to his Secretary of War / 1944

“He was a wise man who invented beer.”
– Plato

“Beer needs baseball and baseball needs beer – it has always been thus.”
– Peter Richmond

“You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline – it helps if you have … a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least, you need a beer.”
– Frank Zappa

“For a quart of ale is a dish for a King”
– William Shakespeare / A Winter’s Tale

“It’s our philosophy and commitment to making fresh, delicious beer that put us on the world beer map”
– Mark Burford, BPBC Owner & BrewMaster

“Beer, if drunk with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit and promotes health.”
– Thomas Jefferson

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