Alan D. Eames quotes
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“Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent settlement and agriculture.”
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“I asked these Indians: "Do men ever make Chicha?" My question was met with gales of laughter. The women howled. Bent over in hilarity, one replied, "Men can't brew. Chicha made by men would only make gas in the belly. You are a funny man! Beer is women's work."”
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“Beer is a gift from the goddesses, a soothing balm given our species to bring joy and comfort in compensation for the curse of self-awareness, the awful realization of our mortality”
-- Alan D. EamesSource : Alan D. Eames (2014). “The Secret Life of Beer!: Exposed: Legends, Lore & Little-Known Facts”, p.15, Storey Publishing
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“Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species. To drink beer is to be human.”
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“This is all thousands of years old. It's the same the world over. Anyone who has ever walked upright has loved beer, celebrated over it, told talks over it, hatched plots over it, courted over it. It's what we do as a species. It's what makes us human. We brew.”
-- Alan D. Eames
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“You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.”
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Source : Alan D. Eames (2014). “The Secret Life of Beer!: Exposed: Legends, Lore & Little-Known Facts”, p.15, Storey Publishing
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Source : Interview with Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.
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“I do not believe in the TRANSFER of an individual. I believe in the TRANSFER of entire villages.”