{"id":47429,"date":"2024-08-14T09:40:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T13:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebeertimes.com\/?p=47429"},"modified":"2026-07-01T19:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T23:27:23","slug":"steve-huxley-humans-could-live-on-beer-and-oranges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebeertimes.com\/en\/steve-huxley-humans-could-live-on-beer-and-oranges\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Huxley (1950-2015): ‘Humans Could Live on Beer and Oranges’"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
\"\"<\/a><\/div>

For Steve Huxley, beer is “almost” a religion. This English professor (Liverpool, 1950), turned craft brewing entrepreneur, became acquainted early with a beverage that, he says, was “the God” of the Celts. Huxley, who wrote “Beer… Liquid Poetry. A Manual for Beer Lovers<\/a>” and contributed to the Oxford Companion to Beer, argues that good beer doesn’t cause hangovers and encourages people to brew at home to save money.<\/p>\n

\"Steve
Steve Huxley. Photo credits: www.cerve.tv<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You say that beer has benefits for humanity. In what sense?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

It is good for health \u2014 physical, mental, and emotional. It is the ultimate social lubricant. Beer makes you laugh, makes you sociable. It is very healthy. And with good beer you can overdo it and still wake up the next morning fresh as a daisy. But with industrial beers that’s not recommended\u2026<\/p>\n

Do you mean that craft beer is easier on a hangover?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

There is no hangover! If you make beer properly, with good ingredients, you don’t produce fusel alcohols, which are what cause headaches. If the beer is well made, you will never, ever, ever have a hangover.<\/p>\n