Wine is okay, what about beer?

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i didn’t really know where to post this question so i will ask it here. Wine was given to humans as a gift from God and is okay to drink, but what about beer? i drink beer in moderation, and prefer it to wine so i am thinking that drinking beer is okay. any comments?

if the moderators know where a better catagory to post this under would be, please do so.
 
The following was posted by Rob’sWife a CAF member…

Beer Blessing
From the Rituale Romanum (no 58)
Bene+dic, Domine, creaturam istam cerevisae, quam ex adipe frumenti producere dignatus es: ut sit remedium salutare humano generi: et praesta per invocationem nominis tui sancti, ut, quicumque ex ea biberint, sanitatem corporis, et animae tutelam percipiant. Per Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen

Bless, O Lord, this creature beer, that Thou hast been pleased to bring forth from the sweetness of the grain: that it might be a salutary remedy for the human race: and grant by the invocation of Thy holy name, that, whosoever drinks of it may obtain health of body and a sure safeguard for the soul. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

(Translation by Fr. Ephraem Chifley, O.P.)
 
I really don’t care for wine myself. The only wine I really like is champagne, for New Year’s and wedding toasts. I think I prefer beer because of my nationality (Polish-German on my mother’s side, and Czech-Austrian on my father’s side). I think wine is probably more popular with Italians and French.
 
The late Pope John Paul II also drank beer in moderation and preferred it to wine. Apparently he especially liked a particular Australian beer, and Aussie bishops used to bring him some of it when they visited Rome.

As long as you don’t get drunk, or get obsessed with it to the exclusion of your rightful duties, any form of alcoholic drink is OK.
 
i have German in me as well as Irish (i like whiskey too!) so maybe that has something to do with it. i like beer but i don’t like it to the point that i miss work because of it or neglect my duties as a father and husband. i usually drink a beer after work or right before bed (it helps me sleep better, but gives me crazy dreams).
 
lak611 said:
I really don’t care for wine myself. The only wine I really like is champagne, for New Year’s and wedding toasts. I think I prefer beer because of my nationality (Polish-German on my mother’s side, and Czech-Austrian on my father’s side). I think wine is probably more popular with Italians and French.
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not with this Italian!!!😃

la birra—la bibita preferita!
 
As Dr. Franklin observed, beer is a sign that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

JSA
 
And Our Lord consecrated wine not beer.

I’m Irish and French and down here in south Louisiana. I cant’t stand beer. Don’t drink it at all. Vino and ouisquebah - good enough for me.
 
xmydreamsfadex said:
i didn’t really know where to post this question so i will ask it here. Wine was given to humans as a gift from God and is okay to drink, but what about beer? i drink beer in moderation, and prefer it to wine so i am thinking that drinking beer is okay. any comments?

if the moderators know where a better catagory to post this under would be, please do so.
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Are you a baptist or somthing?
 
i was born into the baptist church, but am now in RCIA and this Easter will be welcomed into the Catholic Church. what does being baptist have to do with it anyway?
 
I have had wine at the dinner table since I was quite young.

Except when I was twelve and my nice old german grandfather hands me a nice big glass of good bavarian beer at his annual Oktoberfest party, whereupon my mother shows up and gives me a smack over the head and I cant explain to her that I didnt get it, grandpa gave it to me, because we are going and I’m grounded for a week.

Wine is better the beer 😉
 
wine is okay when you’re drinking it with your wife, but going out with “the guys” it wouldn’t feel right drinking wine with them. at least not for me. i still like beer.
 
xmydreamsfadex said:
i was born into the baptist church, but am now in RCIA and this Easter will be welcomed into the Catholic Church. what does being baptist have to do with it anyway?
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The more conservative Protestant branches sometimes prohibit alcohol.

Heck, Protestants in general (as well as Protestant countries) don’t have the alcohol consumption levels that Catholics and Catholic countries have.

Cheers, Papists!😃
 
FuzzyBunny116 said:
The more conservative Protestant branches sometimes prohibit alcohol.

Heck, Protestants in general (as well as Protestant countries) don’t have the alcohol consumption levels that Catholics and Catholic countries have.

Cheers, Papists!😃
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Russians drink heavily.not all Russians are even religious(and the ones that are are predominantly Eastern Orthodox Christians, I wonder about China?

Do you really have statistics that prove this claim? Scandinavia is loaded with high alcohol consumption. I don’t think they are very Catholic. Oh, I also forgot Germany. Catholics are slim to none there. They like to drink.

This post only adds to the sterotype of drunk Catholics. Thanks to the Irish.
 
No Catholics in Germany? The homeland of the current Pope?
Bavaria, that nation’s largest state, is heavily Catholic, it is also home of some of the best beer I’ve had, and Munich, its capital, proudly calls itself the Beer City of the World. Munich is where the real Oktoberfest is celebrated each September and first weekend of Oktober. A personal secret: when I lived there, I bicycled to a small village where the major industry was a brewery that produced the “bier” that was served in upscale restaurants in Munich (better than the famous brews of that city, IMHO.)
 
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