Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy
–Benjamin Franklin
In recent years, beer drinkers have worn t-shirts decorated with a quote attributed to Ben Franklin: "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." Just one problem: Franklin didn't say that. It's a mangled version of another Franklin quote about the pleasures of wine. In a 1779 letter, he wrote that the rain that fell on vineyards and transformed vines into grapes for wine provided "a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy."
....and internet beer quote fraud.
kinda hard to attribute that to Franklin considering he died like 40 years before the term bacterium was introduced
What Ben Franklin Didn't Say About Beer
^ good page on that very topic Revvy
"Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy."
Ben Franklin said:"Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water
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