23 Interesting Beer Facts
Peter Pizagalli
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08/19/2014
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Pop Culture
Explore Beer's long and interesting history.
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American president George Washington had his own brewhouse on the grounds of Mount Vernon. -
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Amsterdam pays alcoholics in beer. For cleaning the city streets, local alcoholics get 10 Euros, half a packet of rolling tobacco and 5 beers as payment by a government-funded organization. -
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Ancient Babylonians were so serious about brewing beer that if anyone brewed a bad batch, they would drown him in it as a punishment. -
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At any given time, 0.7 of the world population is drunk. It means 50 million people are drunk right now. Beer is obviously the main contributor to the drunkenness. -
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Beer and marijuana have more in common than you would think. Beer's hops are in the same family of flowering plants as marijuana. -
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Beer commercials in the US aren't really allowed to show people actually drinking the beer. It's a US law that people cannot actually be shown consuming an alcoholic beverage on television. -
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Beer is one of the world's oldest prepared beverages, possibly dating back to the early Neolithic or 9500 BC -
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Beer prevents kidney stones. A study published in American Journal of Epidemiology estimated that a bottle of beer consumed every day reduces the risk by 40. -
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Beer strengthens bones. It is rich in silicon that increases calcium deposits and minerals for bone tissue. -
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The study of beer and beer-making even has an official scientific name zythology. It derives from the Greek words zythos beer and logos study. -
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Cenosillicaphobia is the fear of an empty beer glass. Terrifying phobia indeed. -
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In 1814, almost 400,000 gallons of beer flooded several streets in London after a huge vat ruptured in the parish of St. Giles. -
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Nowadays, there are about 400 types of beer in the world. Belgium is the country that has the most individual beer brands. -
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Old Vikings believed that in their heaven called Valhalla, there is a giant goat whose udders provided unlimited supply of beer. -
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Stanford researchers found that beer bubbles create a gravity-defying loop. Bubbles head up in the center where frictional drag from the glass is less and down on the outside as the top gets crowded. -
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Steven Petrosino of New Cumberland, Pennsylvania downed 1 liter of beer or 33 ounces in a chilly 1.3 seconds in 1977 which made him a World Beer Chugging Champion according to the Guinness Book of World Records. -
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The Ancient Egyptians built the pyramids under the influence. According to Patrick McGovern, an archaeologist from the University of Pennsylvania, workers at Giza received about four liters of beer a day. -
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The first professional brewers were all women called brewsters. The women had to be very beautiful to be able to become brewsters. -
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The foamy head is a very important part of the beer. It is formed by a complex carbon-dioxide reaction and can say a lot about the quality of the beer. If the head is missing, it can mean that your beer is flat . -
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The oldest drinkable beer in the world was found in 2010, in an early 19th-century shipwreck discovered near Finland. The beer was preserved in bottles by the cold abyss and it tasted very old and burnt -
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The worlds most expensive beer is Belgian's Vielle Bon Secours. One bottle costs around 1000 American dollars. -
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The worlds strongest beer is Brewmeisters Snake Venom. While regular beer usually have about 5 ABV, this Scottish killer has a stomach-burning 67,5 ABV. -
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The world's largest beer festival is Oktoberfest. Held annually in Munich, Germany, it is a 16-day funfair running from late September to the first weekend in October.
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