"Hrothgar spake, the protector of the Scyldings; "For a defence, O my friend Beowulf, and for a succour hast thou soug…"

"Today, of course, most beer is bittered with hops, and the plant is integral to beer’s identity in the United States …"

"There were no rations of rum, but the regulations provided that on foreign voyages, where beer could not be procured,…"

"Taste... can be no criterion by which to judge of the wholesomeness or quality of beer, but as malt liquor may now be…"

"At the present time, ale and beer, according to the will of the brewer, approach or recede from one another in their …"

"Of ale. Ale is made of malte and water; and they the which do put any other thynge to ale then is rehersed, except ye…"

"The drink, which has come to supply the place of beer has, in general, been tea. It is notorious, that tea has no use…"

"I adduce reasons to show that the manufacture of beer was the earliest art of primitive man; an art exceeding in anti…"

"[T]here exists arguments in favour of regarding one of the eatable varieties of "leaven," Machmetzeth, as the beer of…"

"The picture which the heathen English have drawn of themselves in Beowulf is one of savage pirates, clad in shirts of…"