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Try this one: http://www.beerconnoisseur.com/what-shakespeare-drank Interesting read. Thanks for the link, Foam! Funny how many people still think that ale is something other than beer. How many people still think "Beer" = pale lager and "ale" = anything slightly darker or more hoppy? And wow, ever try to explain meaning of barleywine or bitter to someone that isn't familiar with beer? You mean bock beer doesn't come from the bottom of the barrel? [;)]
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Shakespeare on ale: …when she drinks, against her lips I bob And on her wither'd dewlap pour the ale. Puck, in Midsummer Night’s Dream Act Act II, sc. i (there’s a double meaning in that!) Well, you are to call at all the ale-houses, and bid those that are drunk get them to bed. Dogberry, in Much Ado About Nothing Act III, sc. iii (remember, Dogberry is the drunken head of police) ...a quart of ale is a dish for a king. Autoclys, A Winter’s Tale Act IV, sc. iii ...[I] would be glad he met with some mischance, I would have him poison'd with a pot of ale. Hotspur, King Henry IV part 1 Act I, sc. iii Would I were in an alehouse in London! I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety. Boy, King Henry V Act III, sc.ii What a beard of the general's cut and a horrid suit of the camp will do among foaming bottles and ale-washed wits, is wonderful to be thought on. Gower, King Henry V Act III, sc. vi Belong to the gallows, and be hanged, ye rogue! Is this a place to roar in? Fetch me a dozen crab-tree staves, and strong ones: these are but switches to 'em. I'll scratch your heads: you must be seeing christenings? do you look for ale and cakes here,you rude rascals? Porter, King Henry VIII Act V, sc. iv In The Taming of the Shrew, Sly makes a couple of references to ale in scene 2 of the prologue to Act I: For God's sake, a pot of small ale. (he repeats this requests later in the scene out of impatience and his own impending sobriety…in scene i, he has passed out drunk in front of an alehouse ) Am not I Christopher Sly, old Sly's son of Burtonheath, by birth a pedlar, by education a cardmaker, by transmutation a bear-herd, and now by present profession a tinker? Ask Marian Hacket, the fat ale-wife of Wincot, if she know me not: if she say I am not fourteen pence on the score for sheer ale, score me up for the lyingest knave in Christendom. Erect his statue and worship it, And make my image but an alehouse sign. Queen Margaret, King Henry VI part 2, Act III, sc. ii If thou wilt, go with me to the alehouse; if not, thou art an Hebrew, a Jew, and not worth the name of a Christian. Launce, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II, sc. v And the most famous one of all from Two Gentlemen of Verona (Act III, sc. i): SPEED 'Item: She brews good ale.' LAUNCE And thereof comes the proverb: 'Blessing of your heart, you brew good ale.' There are more, but I suppose that is enough.
@Heemer, thanks for providing the link to the article when the link to the blog didn't work for slowrunner. My comment on the blog was "Interesting that ale and beer were once considered two distinctly different beverages. These days, beer is the umbrella term. Two major types of beer are top-fermented ales and cold, bottom fermented lagers. Interesting, too, that the practice of adding hops to beer as the Germans did was resisted for so long by the English. "Bill would've turned his nose up at my favorite hop-bomb! To each his own, I suppose. Or, as the great Bard himself may have said, "But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.""
@jlozier, that's a great collection of quotes. It underscores half of the Beer Connoisseur article's point, which is that the Bard loved ale. What about quotes that highlight the other half of the point, i.e., that Shakespeare hated beer? Beer in his day was the term for German-style hopped lagers.
