Craft Beer Quotes

“There are a thousand small honest breweries in this country that because they have been too poor and localized to compete with the big boys have been forced to close, or else operate under famous names while they turn out yeast, or hops, or some other important but unnamed ingredient of the main company's beer. Now, with the trains full of soldiers and supplies rather than pale ale, perhaps people far from the great breweries will turn again to their local beer factories and discover, as their fathers did thirty years ago, that a beer carried quietly three miles is better than one shot across three thousand on a fast freight.”
― M.F.K. Fisher

“They chose "beer as soda pop." Craft brewers are "beer as wine.”
― Michael Jackson

“If circumstances dictate that your disposable income has to come from eating ramen alongside your vintage Cantillon gueuze, so be it.”
― Patrick Dawson, The Beer Geek Handbook: Living a Life Ruled by Beer

“Most of the wine in the world sells for two dollars a bottle. Quite a bit sells for four dollars to five dollars a bottle, and there are many that sell for ten dollars a bottle. Then you have wines that sell for three hundred dollars a bottle. What the world needs is a beer that's worth five dollars a bottle. I think that would be great. If all beer prices are forced down to the level of Busch Bavarian, none of us will be there.”
― Fritz Maytag

“But no matter how good the beer, how many honors or awards, how innovative Goose Island would ever be again, someone deep in the crowd would always boo.”
― Josh Noel, Barrel-Aged Stout and Selling Out: Goose Island, Anheuser-Busch, and How Craft Beer Became Big Business

“A beer doesn't have to be difficult to acquire, but damned if that doesn't make everything taste better.”
― Patrick Dawson, The Beer Geek Handbook: Living a Life Ruled by Beer

“To put it mildly, Beer Geeks are particular about the beer they drink. They don't waste time, money, and liver capacity on bad beer, and they put a formidable amount of thought into the beer they consume. But consume they do, and impressively well.”
― Patrick Dawson, The Beer Geek Handbook: Living a Life Ruled by Beer

“It is an indisputable fact that the more expensive something is, the better it is.”
― Patrick Dawson, The Beer Geek Handbook: Living a Life Ruled by Beer

“The natural dynamic is to drink less, but drink better. There are no longer masses of workers exiting steel factories in Pennsylvania and coal mines in northern England, ready to wash away the day's work with cases of Pabst Blue Ribbon and the like. Most workers sit at computer screens. They still get thirsty, but not for Pabst Blue Ribbon. They want something better-tasting.”
― Michael Jackson

“I still see people buying and swilling terrible beer. I sometimes think that my job is like farting against a gale, but I just keep moving forward.”
― Michael Jackson

“Two things were inarguable. There was too much beer, a lot of it of dubious quality, and too many breweries, brewpubs and contract brewers, the latter dominated by entities that might not have been in the movement for craftsmanship.”
― Tom Acitelli, The Audacity of Hops: The History of America's Craft Beer Revolution

“Liberty Ale would become quite possibly the most important beer of the late twentieth century”
― Tom Acitelli, The Audacity of Hops: The History of America's Craft Beer Revolution

“American beer drinkers had been conditioned to believe they were choosing Anheuser-Busch's beer, but that was only half true; Anheuser-Busch had left them few other options.”
― Josh Noel, Barrel-Aged Stout and Selling Out: Goose Island, Anheuser-Busch, and How Craft Beer Became Big Business

“Times were good at Goose Island. They couldn't make enough beer! But they were also dire. They couldn't make enough beer.”
― Josh Noel, Barrel-Aged Stout and Selling Out: Goose Island, Anheuser-Busch, and How Craft Beer Became Big Business

“Individually, the changes were small; together they became something significant.”
― Josh Noel, Barrel-Aged Stout and Selling Out: Goose Island, Anheuser-Busch, and How Craft Beer Became Big Business