If such is the case, and I have reasons to believe it is so, then we cannot really say that Life is 'short' at all. This particular manifestation is short, to be sure, and if we miss trying out that stout made in Texas in this lifetime, then we can hit it the next time we come around. But therein lies the romanticism of our brewing revolution. Cosmically speaking, this is why millerweiser is a crime against Nature. It, like Frankenstein's monster, is an artificially prolonged life that should have ended a long time ago.
Life is too short to drink.
This phrase carries all kinds of metaphysical problems along with it. Drinking in America has many after effects. It makes some people mad, it makes some people bad. Others become sad, and others become glad. The act of drinking beer contains within it the Great Paradoxes which only the most abstruse of symbols can conceal.