What follows is the canon as it stands: five verses the congregation has agreed upon, each with a short note on how it is read. The book is not finished. It is fermenting.
Hops 1:1
In the beginning there was water, and it was thin.
The opening verse is not a complaint about water. It is the church's argument that things can be improved, and that improving them is honest work. Every brewer begins where this verse begins.
Hops 4:12
And he took the grain, and he did steep it, and it was good.
The most quoted line in the book, and the shortest account of a process anywhere in scripture. Note the order: he took, he steeped, and only then was it judged. Nothing here is good before it is made.
Hops 7:2
Be patient with the vessel, for it works while you sleep.
Read on its face it is advice about fermentation, and it is good advice. Read more broadly it is the church's only teaching on time: the useful thing is often happening when you are not watching it.
Hops 11:3
Where two or three are gathered, bring a third glass.
The hospitality verse, read aloud at every ordination. The arithmetic is deliberately loose. The point is that you should arrive expecting one more person than you were told about.
Hops 19:8
Drink not to forget, but to remember who sat beside you.
The last verse in the canon and the only one phrased as an instruction. It is also the church's position on moderation, which it declines to state in numbers.
On the canon
Any ordained minister may submit a verse. It enters the canon when it has been read aloud at three separate gatherings without anyone laughing at the wrong moment. Most do not survive the second reading.