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24 Facts You Didn't Know About Beer

21 FACTS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT BEER The ancient Babylonians were the first to brew. King Hammurabi decreed that any person who brewed a bad batch of beer should be drowned in it as a punishment. The oldest evidence of beer is believed to be a 6,000 year-old Sumerian tablet depicting people drinking a beverage through reed straws from a communal bowl. The oldest surviving beer recipe, describing the production of beer from barley via bread is found in a 3,900 year-old Sumerian poem honoring Ninkasi, the patron goddess of brewing. The first recorded drunk driving incident happened in ancient Egypt around 2,000 BC, when an inebriated charioteer was apprehended after running down a vestal virgin of the goddess Hathor. Beer was the drink of choice in Middle Age. Clean water was difficult to find and the alcohol in beer killed most microorganisms making it safer to drink. Beer contains almost all of the minerals humans need to survive. It was a staple of many diets during the European Middle Ages, when good nutrition was rare. People, as well as children drank beer to survive, using it as a source of energy and nutrients. Vikings believed that a giant goat whose udders provided an endless supply of beer was waiting for them in Valhalla (Vikings Heaven) Inventions such as the plow, wheel, and irrigation systems appeared during the agriculture revolution, as people needed a way to make more beer. The oldest functional brewery in the world is the wwww. wy ts Weihenstephan Brewery, which traces its roots at the abbey to 768. A brewery was licensed by the City of Freising in 1040, which is the founding date claimed by the modern brewery. Two houses were demolished and nine people died in 1814 after a brewery tank containing 388,000 gallons or 1.4M L ruptured, causing a tidal wave of beer through a London Parish. 10 The first beer cans were produced in 1933 by the American Can Co. called "Keglined". Their cans were structurally capable of withstanding the high pressure and were internally sealed to prevent the transfer of a metallic taste from the metal can to the beer. The religious men linked to Thailand's Wat Pa Maha Kaew Temple-nicknamed Temple of a Million Bottles-take recycling seriously: they reused 1.5 million of the green and brown alcohol containers to build the temple. A cloud near the constellation Aquila contains enough 12 ethyl alcohol to fill 400 trillion trillion pints of beer. Beer consumption per capita (in liters) #1 Czech Republic 132 #6 Lithuania 86 #2 Germany 107 #7 Poland 84 #3 Austria 106 #8 Australia 83 # 4 Ireland 104 #9 Venezuela 83 #5 Estonia 91 #10 Finland 83 14 The most expensive beers in the world #1 Vieille Bon Secours ale, Belgium $1100 This 12-liter bottle of Belgian ale brewed by Caulier is believed to be the most world's most expensive single bottle of beer #2 The End of History, BrewDog, Scotland Only 12 bottles of were ever produced. Extreme freezing techniques were used to $765 get such a high ABV and each bottle of this beer was adorned with a real, taxidermied stoat or grey squirrel and included a certificate of authenticity. #3 Antarctic Nail Ale by Nail Brewing, Australia Antarctic Nail Ale is a 4.6% limited edition Australian Pale Ale made from water $800 melted from a block of Antarctic ice. Only 30 bottles were produced. #4 Jacobsen Vintage by Carlsberg, Denmark The finest hops and caramel were used before the concoction was matured in $374 wine cellars for six months. This vintage brew can only be purchased in Denmark's finest restaurants. #5 Schorschbock57 by Schorschbräu, Germany Once recognized as the strongest beer in the world, coming with an ABV of 57%, this $275 beer breaks the majority of the German Beer Purity Law. Only 36 bottles were made. The World's Strongest Beer 15 Dubbed Snake Venom, the beer contains a massive 67.5% alcohol by volume, costs $85 to buy and should be consumed in tiny doses. Snake Venom is the product of Scottish brewery Brewmeister, which has upped the ante from its previous record-holding concoction, the 65% ABV Armageddon. The World's longest hangover lasted 4 weeks after a man 16 consumed 60 pints of beer in 4 days. The beer had dehydrated him so much that he developed cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (in other words, he drank himself into having a stroke). 17 There are around 400 types of beer in the world. Belgium has the most individual brands in the world. 18 The fear of empty beer glass, is called Cenosillicaphobia. Germany has created a 5-kilometer stretch beer pipeline, which connects the bars in the Veltines-Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The arena has beer storage areas under the bars that hold up to 52,000 liters of ice-cold brew. Different channels are used to take the beer to its drinkers at a rate of 14 liters per minute. At the start of Bavarian Beer Week in Germany, an open-air beer fountain 20 dispenses free beer to the public. VOTE In the 1980s, a beer-drinking goat named Clay Henry II *****. was elected mayor of Lajitas, TX. "Barley" is the name of a beer made with grains descended from barley that spent 5 months in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station. The very limited results, just 250 six-packs, will be sold through a lottery for 10,000 yen ($110) each. Only people living in Japan are eligible to buy this beer. The bubbles in Guinness the Irish dry stout defy the laws of physics and float downwards. Caused by pressure, widget black magic and drag on the sides of the glass it appears as if the bubbles in a pint of Guinness do travel downwards. If you could do a cross section of a pint though, you could see that bubbles in the center of the glass rise normally. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that women who drank moderately had better cognitive function compared to non-drinkers. Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the Benjamin Franklin morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. Frank Sinatra Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. Give me a woman who loves beer Winston Churchill and I will conquer the world. Kaiser Wilhelm Beer, if drunk in moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit and promotes health. Thomas Jefferson Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer! Martin Luther AALL IN. http://www.factslides.com/s-Beer http://www.weirdfacts.com/Fun-Facts-Stuff/beer-facts-a-quotes.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer http://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2014/03/10-of-the-worlds-most-expensive-beers/ http://mentalfloss.com/article/52941/25-amazing-facts-national-beer-day http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/25/national-beer-day-american_n_4158683.html http://www.bluepantsbrew.com/fun-facts-about-beer/ http://brewwiki.com/index.php/Beer_Quotes LIMO http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beer.html $100

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