"He was a wise man who invented beer". Plato

“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” 
― Benjamin Franklin

And so the first batch mellows nicely and while it is not as clear as I would like it is delicious.  Perhaps not my favorite but still very tasty.  I am looking forward to the next batch and fighting urges to sample to soon.

And then just some quotes to ponder while we drink:

“You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but in the very least you need a beer.”

― Frank Zappa

“Beer is made by men, wine by God.”

― Martin Luther

“The best beer is where priests go to drink. For a quart of Ale is a dish for a king.”

— William Shakespeare

“Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!”

― Martin Luther

“Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o’clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more till the afternoon; and half a gallon at supper-time. No one can object to that.” 

— Richard Doddridge Blackmore