Ray's Monthly Bar Specials

Speaking about beer, a drink of practical common sense, we must eschew high flown phraseology.
- Anonymous

Beer once tasted like something. It was made out of malt and
hops and yeast and pure filtered water….Nowadays it is often
made of such gook as rice and corn grits…When some brewers
started to use rice in the product, all was finished. A dreary potion
resulted; and worse, a corrupt taste…most beer that’s pushed across
the plank these days is nothing but dirty water. It’s so light and
clear it’s nothing….ignoble swill.
-Charles McCabe
1960

Beer has come to be acknowledged as the national beverage of
England. At a recent Conference of Brewers, Lord Burton claimed
that his country won its high and proud position among the
nations of the Earth simply on the account of its characteristic
dietary, “beef and beer.” Whereupon someone made the waggish
comment, “Why drag in the beef?”
-F.W. Hackwood
1910

Let us now speak of beer…By art invented
Which makes miracles and wonders…
It makes strong men creep
Makes men shout high in the street.
Such virtues has the barley juice.
The beer made of malt, that headgear of a rooster
Keeps it color without vermillion.
Here this matter rests,
Let us speak on something else.
-Treatise of Walter Biblesworth,
Norman-French, 13th Century

Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished
on beer.
-Frederick the Great