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"In Heaven There Is No Beer" is a polka song about the existential pleasures of beer drinking. The title of the song states a reason for drinking beer while you are still alive. The song in German is "Im Himmel gibt's kein Bier", in Spanish, "En El Cielo No Hay Cerveza". [1]
Better safe than sorry; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven; Be yourself; Better the Devil you know (than the Devil you do not) Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all; Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness; Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt; Better ...
Chibemba: Ubwalwa nisokolola twebo, ' beer makes one reveal secrets '. [citation needed] Chichewa: Phika mowa unve chinapha amako, ' brew beer and you will hear what killed your mother '. [citation needed] Ewe: Gnatepe le kopo'a me, ' truth lies in the cup '. Tetela: Olamba háté kashi, ' alcohol does not lie '. [9]
“Same with a large glass of wine — that will likely be more than one (standard) drink.” In the US, one “standard” drink contains roughly 14 grams of pure alcohol. That equals about 12 ...
A third reason is that wine was created to comfort those who are in mourning (based on Proverbs 31:6) and there emerged a practice to toast thus when drinking in sad times in the hope that one day the drinker will drink wine in good happy times, and the practice of toasting this way subsequently extended to all situations.
That much is clear inside the company’s headquarters in Leuven, a town where monks first began brewing beer more than 600 years ago, fermenting hops with water from the polluted river running ...
The Rechabites, a sub-tribe of the Kenites, vowed never to drink wine, live in houses, or plant fields or vineyards, not because of any "threat to wise living" from the latter [Prov. 20:1] practices, but because of their commitment to a nomadic lifestyle by not being bound to any particular piece of land. [11]
More honoured in the breach than the observance. (Another misunderstood phrase, in the context (the Danes' drinking customs) it signifies that the Danes gain more honour by neglecting their drunken customs than following them; however, it has come to be used in situations where it simply means that a custom is hardly ever followed.) O, answer me!