" If you ask me, the whole Reformation can be blamed on strong beer,” he
opined. “Wine is a perfect Catholic drink. It makes people sleepy and complicit. Beer just makes them argumentative. And look at the countries that drink a lot of beer. They’re mainly Protestant. And the countries where they drink a lot of wine? Roman Catholic.”
“What about the Russians?” I asked. “They drink vodka.”
“That’s a drink to help you find oblivion,” said Father Bandolini. “Nothing
to do with God at all. "

― Philip Kerr , The One from the Other (Bernard Gunther, #4)