159 Great Beer Quotes

Following is our list of great beer quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about craft beer.

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Famous Great Beer Quotes

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world. — Jack Nicholson

Beer ... a high and mighty liquor. — Julius Caesar

Nothing ever tasted better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to than more of the same. — Hugh Hood

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer. - Henry Lawson

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer. — Henry Lawson

They who drink beer will think beer. — Washington Irving

Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them. — Queen Victoria

The mouth of a perfectly happy man is filled with beer. — Egyptian Proverbs

Cerevisiam Bibat! (drink beer for health) — Hildegard of Bingen

Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there's always beer. — Norm MacDonald

Beer: Helping ugly people have sex since 3000 B. C. - W. C. Fields

Beer: Helping ugly people have sex since 3000 B. C. — W. C. Fields

I'm a meat girl and I just love having a beer. — Jill Goodacre

Money can't buy happiness—but it can buy beer. — Gary Reilly

I recommend...bread, meat, vegetables, and beer. — Sophocles

Whiskey's to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer. — Tom T. Hall

On victory, you deserve beer. On defeat, you need it. - Napoleon Bonaparte

On victory, you deserve beer. On defeat, you need it. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Short Great Beer Quotes

  • Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world. — Kaiser Wilhelm
  • Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world. — Wilhelm II
  • Everything will be okay in the end. If it`s not okay, than there is always beer — Granger Smith
  • I love to have a beer with Duncan "Cause Duncan"s me mate — Slim Dusty
  • Does anybody have, a cold beer for Steve Austin?!??!!? — Stone Cold Steve Austin
  • In heaven there is no beer. That's why we drink ours here. — Frank Yankovic
  • Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer. — W. C. Fields
  • Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think. — A.E. Housman
  • Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell. — Billy Sunday
  • Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous. — Chris Laidlaw

Great Beer Image Quotes

Great beer quote Silence is a source of great strength.
Silence is a source of great strength.

Beer Quotes

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer! — Martin Luther

The whole world is drunk and we're just the cocktail of the moment. Someday soon, the world will wake up, down two aspirin with a glass of tomato juice, and wonder what the hell all the fuss was about. — Dean Martin

A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation. — William Blake

Great beer quote Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.
Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.

I'm not God but if I were God, ¾ of you would be girls, and the rest would be pizza and beer. — Axl Rose

I don't think I've ever stepped into a gym - they won't let me smoke there. I just thank God Miller Lite isn't as fattening as most beers. If I cut back on beer, though, I'd look anorexic. — John Daly

You will not be able to stay home, brother./You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out./You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,/Skip out for beer during commercials,/Because the revolution will not be televised. — Gil Scott-Heron

Great beer quote Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.
Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. — Socrates

A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory. - Albert Einstein

A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory. — Albert Einstein

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. — Louis Pasteur

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. — George Carlin

Craft Beer Quotes

For a quart of ale is a dish for a king. — William Shakespeare

The roots and herbes beaten and put into new ale or beer and daily drunk, cleareth, strengtheneth and quickeneth the sight of the eyes. — Nicholas Culpeper

No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer. — John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

Great beer quote Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old. — Martin Luther

Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be applied at that moment in a film, but your craft isn't structured around such things, except in beer commercials. — Gordon Willis

Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop. — Winston Churchill

Great beer quote Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.

God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer. — Anne Sexton

For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry. — Sherwood Boehlert

The letters in 'Brace Beemer' can be arranged to spell 'Embrace Beer.' — Dave Barry

Brewers enjoy working to make beer as much as drinking beer instead of working. — Hal Foster

Drinking Beer Quotes

Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war. — Frederick the Great

Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils. — Carrie Nation

A drunk was in front of a judge. The judge says "You've been brought here for drinking." The drunk says "Okay, let's get started. — Henny Youngman

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach. — Rebecca Miller

Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer. — Clementine Paddleford

Great beer quote You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is. — Billy Carter

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach. — Upton Sinclair

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years. — Samuel L. Jackson

It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church. — Martin Luther

Cold Beer Quotes

When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth. — Bernie Mac

Beer has long been the prime lubricant in our social intercourse and the sacred throat-anointing fluid that accompanies the ritual of mateship. To sink a few cold ones with the blokes is both an escape and a confirmation of belonging. — Rennie Ellis

Cold beer is bottled God. — Dylan Thomas

Great beer quote Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.

If you want to see Chris Jericho drink a beer with Stone Cold Steve Austin, give me a doo-a dee-dee-dam, dee-dee-doo. — Chris Jericho

Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer. — Tom Robbins

In my case, I thoroughly enjoy running 100-odd miles a week. If I didn't I wouldn't do it. Who can define happiness? To some, happiness is a warm puppy or a glass of cold beer. To me, happiness is running in the hills with my mates around me. — Ron Clarke

Great beer quote To a great mind, nothing is little.
To a great mind, nothing is little.

I like my beer cold, my TV loud, and my homosexuals flaming. — Matt Groening

Oh, this beer here is cold, cold and hop-bitter, no point coming up for air, gulp, till it's all--hahhhh. — Thomas Pynchon

‎''Just think, never to be glad or disappointed. Never to like anyone and get cross at him and forgive him. Never to sleep or feel cold, never to make a mistake and have a stomach-ache and be cured from it, never to have a birthday party, drink beer, and have a bad conscience... How terrible. — Tove Jansson

You call this a party? The beer is warm, the women cold and I'm hot under the collar. — Groucho Marx

Light Beer Quotes

My first pastoral letter's gonna be a condemnation of light beer and instant mashed potatoes -- I hate those two things. — Timothy M. Dolan

You might be a redneck if you're a lite beer drinker, because you start drinking when it gets light. — Jeff Foxworthy

Listening to someone who brews their own beer is like listening to a religious fanatic talk about the day he saw the light. — Ross Murray

Great beer quote Average people have great ideas. Legends have great execution.
Average people have great ideas. Legends have great execution.

I'd been doing some light-beer commercials for Budweiser and Coors, and I was doing stand-up comedy. I wanted to get into the acting world, and my agent sent me on audition and they liked it. — Kevin Nealon

A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist. — Desiderius Erasmus

In my experience, you run into trouble when you ask a group of beer-drinking men to perform any task more complex than remembering not to light the filter ends of cigarettes. — Dave Barry

Great beer quote Don't fear the failure... in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
Don't fear the failure... in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Bud Light....the perfect beer for marketers about to lose their job. — Jeff Barrett

I'm sure it's nothing switching to a light beer won't cure. — Jennifer Rardin

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Brewing Beer Quotes

How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter. — W. C. Fields

We could not now take time for further search or consideration, our victuals being much spent, especially our beer. — William Bradford

You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are. - Adolphus Busch

You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are. — Adolphus Busch

Great beer quote No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.
No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.

Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer! — Louis Untermeyer

We brewers don't make beer, we just get all the ingredients together and the beer makes itself. — Fritz Maytag

How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it. — Edward Abbey

A woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one! — Matt Groening

Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today. — Edgar Allan Poe

If you think about brewing, it is biotechnology. And I would say that I was a technologist at heart. So whether I... fermented beer or whether I fermented enzymes, the base technology was the same. — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beer And Wine Quotes

There is nearly universal consensus that we should prohibit selling and serving alcohol to minors because wine, beer, and spirits can be addictive and, when used to excess, ruinous for their health. Is excess sugar any different? — Daniel Lieberman

Sophisticated foods are bittersweet wine, beer, coffee, chocolate. Addictive relationships are cooperative and competitive. Work becomes flow at the limits of ability. The flavor of life is on the edge. — Naval Ravikant

Religions change; beer and wine remain. — Hervey Allen

It's the same things your whole life. 'Clean up your room!', 'Stand up straight!', 'Pick up your feet!', 'Take it like a man!', 'Be nice to your sister!', 'Don't mix beer and wine, ever!'. Oh yeah, 'Don't drive on the railroad track!' — Philip Connors

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. — Dave Barry

Good people drink good beer. — Hunter S. Thompson

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion. — Miguel de Cervantes

I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco. — Babe Ruth

One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams. — John Milton

Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health. — Thomas Jefferson

Great Wine Quotes

What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains three great privileges: omnipotence without power, intoxication without wine, and life without death. — Francis of Assisi

it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime! - Kenny Chesney

it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime! — Kenny Chesney

Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it. — Salvador Dali

If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life. — Alexander Fleming

Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine. — Robin Leach

Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine! — Johann Sebastian Bach

The older I get, the better I used to be. — Lee Trevino

It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason — W. C. Fields

Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages. — Louis Pasteur

The older I get, the better I was. — Van Dyke Parks

Great Food Quotes

Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are. - Unknown Author

Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are. — Unknown Author

If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony. — Fernand Point

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria. — Mario Batali

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients. — Julia Child

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL. — Jocko Willink

The people who give you their food give you their heart. - Cesar Chavez

The people who give you their food give you their heart. — Cesar Chavez

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating. — Luciano Pavarotti

People who love to eat are always the best people. - Julia Child

People who love to eat are always the best people. — Julia Child

It has been shown as proof positive that carefully prepared chocolate is as healthful a food as it is pleasant; that it is nourishing and easily digested... that it is above all helpful to people who must do a great deal of mental work. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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More Great Beer Quotes

It is a great feeling to know that from a window I can go to books to cans of beer to past loves. And from these gather enough dream to sneak out a back door. — Gregory Corso

Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that. — Joe Theismann

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors. — Willie Nelson

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine. — Heraclitus

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame. — Oscar Wilde

Payday came and with it beer — Rudyard Kipling

I should like a great lake of ale, for the King of Kings. I should like the family of heaven to be drinking it through time eternal. — Brigit of Kildare

To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can! — Leo Durocher

Homer no function beer well without. — Matt Groening

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

I've never been drunk, but often I've been overserved. — George Gobel

I feel sorry for people who do not have a Bible to lean on. — Adrian Rogers

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer. — Frank Zappa

He that drinks fast, pays slow. Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. There can't be good living where there is not good drinking. — Benjamin Franklin

When will I learn? The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle. They're on TV! — Matt Groening

Most people hate the taste of beer - to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome. — Winston Churchill

I saw a notice that said "Drink Canada Dry" and I've just started. — Brendan Behan

The first few glasses of beer were a revelation; they flushed my veins with happiness; they washed away all cares and shyness and worries. I remember thinking to myself, If I could have two pints of beer every afternoon, life would be a great happiness. — George Mackay Brown

Let no man thirst for good beer. — Samuel Adams

You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine. Beer is great for basting or marinating meat and fish. — Grant Wood

Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it. — Ray Bradbury

stay with the beer. beer is continuous blood. a continuous lover. — Charles Bukowski

Drinking is a way of ending the day. — Ernest Hemingway

Beer is made by men, wine by God. — Martin Luther

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer --the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power. — A. J. P. Taylor

God is great, beer is good, and people are crazy. — Billy Currington

Now son, you don’t want to drink beer. That’s for Daddies, and kids with fake IDs. — Homer

Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,-which would make him see green, and, if he slept, dream that he heard the wind sough among the pines. — Henry David Thoreau

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