Spain is a bottle of beer and I am the cork. When that comes out, all the liquid inside will escape, God knows in what direction.
Before dying in 1833 Fernando predicted the ambiguity of Spain’s future.
He's got to bring something stronger than that. That's like bringing milk to a bar, it's not strong enough
Why beer is better than wine: human feet are conspicuously absent from beer making.
I once donated a pint of my finest red corpuscles to the great American Red Cross and the doctor opined my blood was very helpful; contained so much alcohol they could use it to sterilize their instruments.
What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.
L'alcool est le monarque des liquides, et porte au dernier degre l'exaltation palatale. Alcohol is the prince of liquids, and carries the palate to its highest pitch of exaltation.
I would like a wine. The purpose of the wine is to get me drunk. A bad wine will get me as drunk as a good wine. I would like the good wine. And since the result is the same no matter which wine I drink, I'd like to pay the bad wine price.
The wine world is so big. Yes, there are styles of wines I don't like. Orange wine, natural wines and low-alcohol wines. Truth is on my side, and history will prove I am right.
Wine is only sweet to happy men.
Beer is nasty.
Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding this eulogy, I soon found that the mass of plain porter bears an unsatisfactory relation to its toxic content and I subsequently became addicted to brown stout in bottle, a drink which still remains the one that I prefer the most despite the painful and blinding fits of vomiting which a plurality of bottles has often induced in me.
The key factor in the vodka category is smoothness, and smoothness is what our vodka has.
To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
Champagne offers a minimum of alcohol and a maximum of companionship.
And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a lifetime, I'd never be able to see the shore.
There is no such thing as a bad beer. It's that some taste better than others.
Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly. The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation. "I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!
If you drink O'Douls, you don't drink; but if you drink 20 O'Douls in a half hour, then you're a non-alcoholic.
Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.
Martinis are glamorous but also so simple because they only have a few ingredients, and you can really taste the vodka.
You can tell it's good if you light it and a blue flame comes up; that means it's good moonshine and it won't make you go blind.
Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.
I used to let the olde english 8- suds bubble in the last car of the Franklin Avenue shuttle
Note, that yeast of good Beer, is better then that of Ale.
We'd boil this whisky because we thought that would make it stronger. So we thought we were getting drunk, but in fact there'd be no alcohol left in it.