Double Quotes: Thomas Jefferson liked his beer

The Smithsonian will devote three-years to the study of brewing in America

1804 “I see too with great satisfaction every example of bending science to the useful purposes of life. Hitherto chemistry has scarcely deigned to look to the occupations of domestic life. When she shall have made intelligible to the ordinary householder the philosophy of making bread, butter, cheese, soap, beer, cyder, wine, vinegar etc. these daily comforts will keep us ever mindful of our obligations to her. The art of distilling which you propose to explain, besides it’s household uses, is valuable to the agriculturalist, as it enables him to put his superfluous grain into a form which will bear long transportation to markets to which the raw material could never get.” — Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Michael Krafft, author of American Distiller.

2016 “Museum staff have researched and documented American food and beverage history for more than two decades and will work with the Brewers Association, American brewers and beer historians to document and collect the stories and history of modern American brewing. Beer and brewing have been an important part of the American experience since before the nation’s founding and into the present day, and beer production for the past 30 years has been connected to significant social, cultural, economic and environmental movements across the country.”
— The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, announcing on May 4, 2016 a three-year research project to document the social and cultural impact of beer in the US