“I liked the taste of beer, its live, white lather, its brass-bright depths, the sudden world through the wet-brown walls of the glass, the tilted rush to the lips and the slow swallowing down to the lapping belly, the salt on the tongue, the foam at the corners.” WorldWhiteWallTasteDepthLipsGlassesCornersTongueBeerBrownSaltWetBellyBrassFoamSwallowing Book:The Collected Stories Source: The Collected Stories
“You don't consume craft beers in great quantities just to get loaded; you consume craft beers because you like the taste of the beer. People are asking for beer based on what they're eating, which is quite a change from the way it was.” PeopleWayTasteEatingAskingCraftsBeerQuantityLoadedCraft Beer Author:Bruce McDonald
“Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the smell of onion or quince. Auden has a line: "Ports have names they call the sea." Just so will literature describe life familiarly, regionally, in terms life is accustomed to use -- high or low matters not. Literature cannot by this impulse betray the grandeur of its subject -- there is only one subject: What it feels like to be alive. Nothing is irrelevant. Nothing is typical.” FeelsShouldBookMatterUseLife IsLiteratureNamesTermLinesAliveSeaSubjectsParticularTastePaperLowsFlowWarmSmellBeerImpulseBetrayTypicalIrrelevantAccustomedMundaneGrandeurPortOnionsAudenQuinceTerm Life Book:Brown: The Last Discovery of America Source: Brown: The Last Discovery of America
“I am a futility. The life of prayer begins with that. And God is not a comfort, to be offered like Kleenex. God is a poisoned sea, with broken syringes washing up on the beach. God is shopping malls stretching to the horizon and warplanes in the sky. God is a flat tire in a rainstorm and beer cans in the ditch, a bottle shattered on a highway and the taste of gunmetal in your mouth.” PrayerSeaSkyBrokenComfortTasteMouthsBeerBeachFlatsHorizonBottlesShoppingTireHighwaysWashingShatteredStretchingFutilityMallsRainstormsFlat TiresKleenex Author:Tim Farrington
“People can tell what's in beer, eh? Like my brother can tell the difference between beers by what his burps taste like.” PeopleDifferencesBrotherTasteBeerMy Brother Author:Bob McKenzie
“When I conducted a beer-rating session last year, I wrote that most American beers taste as if they were brewed through a horse. That offended many people in the American beer industry, as well as patriots who thought I was being subversive in praising foreign beers. I have just read a little-known study of American beers. So I must apologize to the horse. At least with a horse, we'd know what we're getting.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsWellsLittlesLastsKnownStudyIndustryTasteHorsePraiseBeerLast YearPatriotApologizingOffendedSessionRatingSubversive Author:Mike Royko
“I drink a lot of everything; beer while watching football. I have a taste for whiskey, but Jack Daniels and ginger is about as fancy as it gets with me.” FootballDrinkTasteBeerFancyWhiskeyGingerJack DanielsWatching Football Author:Jeff Gannon
“There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.” IfsYearsRealGuyFoundGoes OnDrinkTasteFatsBeerDietsWhiskeyHookedScotchDrinking WhiskeyWhiskey DrinkingTequilaScotch WhiskeyScotch Whisky Author:Ron White
“We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing -- half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could.” FeelsKindLongHardWantedLastsWaitingEnjoyHalfTasteWindowEmptyDrunkBeerAwakeOver YouSwimmingTastyGo Hard Author:Ken Kesey