Beer brewed with love, drunk with good sense, and enjoyed in friendship can be a context for ordinary holiness: the presence of God in human life. Witness, for example, Belgian Beer Culture at its best.
Belgium’s history of making and drinking beer stretches back centuries, with Belgian beer now officially recognized by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity. Beer culture can be healthy or unhealthy. As the saying goes in Belgium, "beer brewed with love should be drunk with good sense." This page is an open and relational (process) appreciation of beer brewed with love and drunk with good sense. In this context beer be a sacrament as holy as wine or bread, bringing people together in ways that make the world friendlier and more beautiful. God is in the friendship and the beauty.
Belgium’s history of making and drinking beer stretches back centuries, with Belgian beer now officially recognized by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity. Beer culture can be healthy or unhealthy. As the saying goes in Belgium, "beer brewed with love should be drunk with good sense." This page is an open and relational (process) appreciation of beer brewed with love and drunk with good sense. In this context beer be a sacrament as holy as wine or bread, bringing people together in ways that make the world friendlier and more beautiful. God is in the friendship and the beauty.