Blessing over beer

[Bugbear]

I don't mean to interrupt, CDNSushi, but I'm wondering if there is also a blessing for the grain when it is grown?
Interesting tradition.

... "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
-- Benjamin Franklin

Todd (A nosebleed-high Anglo-Catholic)

I don't seem to have it anymore, cajunscot, but back in the early nineties a college history teacher, in an American Revolution course, handed out copies of Benjamin Franklin's rum punch recipe. If I remember it had quite a bit of sugar in it. That quote reminded me of it.

[CDNSushi]

I don't mean to interrupt, CDNSushi, but I'm wondering if there is also a blessing for the grain when it is grown?
Interesting tradition.

Yes. Absolutely.

10. BLESSING OF SEED

P: Our help is in the name of the Lord.

All: Who made heaven and earth.

P: The Lord be with you.

All: May He also be with you.

Let us pray.
Lord, we earnestly beg you to bless these seeds, to protect and preserve them with gentle breezes, to make them fertile with heavenly dew, and to bring them, in your benevolence, to the fullest harvest for our bodily and spiritual welfare; through Christ our Lord.

There is another, separate blessing over bread as well.