Alexander Caldwell

"We no longer wrestled with the ethics of alcohol as in ages past but that we were desperate for those pleasant hours that a good beer and friends could sometimes mean...I thought of the two and a half centuries of life lived with the dark stout in attendance at many a meaningful moment: when the baby was born or the grandfather died, when the son made it through school... People naturally toast these changes with something in their glasses, something that they value and that brings them joy...And their lives are certainly richer for what it can mean and for the friendship and the fun they celebrate with those they hold dear." - Stephen Mansfield, The Search for God and Guinness