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For The Love of Beer

from The Man Who Loved Beer by Kevin P. Gilday

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For the love of beer
Fill your glasses
Find a table and park your arses
Let the multitude of the artform overtake
Masterpieces rendered in golden opaque
A nectar handed down from the god of hops
Be they microbrewed or lager tops
All fermented by modern alchemy
Magic incarnate we cannot see
What transforms simple ingredients:
Hops, water and wheat
Into this ecclesiastical liquid
That transcends conceit
Drinking great art
Created by anonymous auteurs
A liquid based sculpture
Admire the contours
While alcohol infused brushstrokes dance on your tongue
Leaving you feeling comfortably numb
My haplessly hammered hobby
An explorer of flavour
Drunk Indiana Jones
Do me a favour
Gonnae get me a pint?
I don't get paid 'til a week today
Just get me anything
As long as it's an IPA -
Or a Hefeweizen or a Dunkel
Or both joined together
A Pilsner or a Pale Ale
Dependent on the weather
A Kolsch or an Alt
Warring recipes
A stout or a Porter
Staunch delicacies
Bitter or Mild
Lambic or Bock
Or one brewed by Belgian monks
That renders you unable to fucking walk -
Just give me a beer
In all its complex majesty
Its myriad forms
Its simple pageantry
And you may mock my loving stance
To hold the inanimate so dear
But I'll still fill my glass proudly
For the love of beer

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from The Man Who Loved Beer, released June 21, 2015

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Kevin P. Gilday Glasgow, UK

Kevin P. Gilday is an award-winning writer and spoken word artist from Glasgow, Scotland.

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