“Keeping up this cheerful note, Norris says ‘Antiseptic and other constituents of hops, while important as agents which give beer some of its pleasing characteristics, are of no direct nutritional significance, but it should be mentioned that the presence of these substances and the conditions of manufacture make beer, from the microbiological point of view, one of the safest beverages’.”

Dr WF Norris, quoted in
“Beer, Beer, Glorious Beer”
Aubrey Thomas
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder
September 24 1946