Beer Literature: Stories, Poems, &c.

This page is a collection of links to short stories, poems, jokes, and observations about homebrewing society, personalities, and psyche. As usual, if you know of other resources we can add to this page, please send us e-mail at brewery@hbd.org.

• Lines on Ale, by Edgar Allen Poe
• John Barleycorn, by Robert Burns
• EBC Revises Language, by G. Shutelock
• Twas a While Before Christmas, by John Palmer: poem
• Excerpt from The Great Shark Hunt, by Hunter S. Thompson: story
• Brewsters Run with the Wolves, by Madame Marie Mains: perspectives by a woman brewer
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
• Michael Jackson Quotes: from a tasting at the Brickskellar (Washington D.C.), posted by John DeCarlo
• Beer, by George Arnold: poem from mid 1800s
• Shropshire Lad #62, by A.E. Houseman
• The Xmas Flashback, by Ken Papai
• Cartoons from the Borderline Netazine (newsletter editors may be able to get permission to use these cartoons):
  • Bear
  • Bar
  • Roosevelt
  • Caesar
• If Operating Systems Were Beers... , by Bill Cernansky