Sure there’s nothing magical about hoses, pumps or stainless steel. And most everything involved in creating beer can be explained in a very formal, scientific way. But there is something absolutely magical about beer- and not just the marriage of hops and malt or the alchemy of yeast and fermentation. It’s not the liquid itself that is truly magical but our relationship to it- it’s when we actually drink beer that the magic happens. Without someone to drink it, does a beer taste like anything?