April 07, 2020 - 10 Facts About Beer

Today is National Beer Day.

Here are 10 hoppy facts about beer that you didn’t know, that you didn’t need to know:

1. Many civilizations of medieval times relied heavily on beer as the safest available drink since water quality was normally poor. 
2. In 1983, 49 licensed breweries existed in the U.S. By 2017, it was 8,863.
3. Drinking a ÿard of ale” is a traditional coming-of-age ceremony in Britain. One must drink 3 pints without stopping from a yard long glass. 
4. Women did the majority of brewing in ancient Egypt. 
5. In 2001, some Belgian elementary schools served low-alcohol beer to school children at lunch. 
6. The guiness book of world records was made to help settle bar arguments
   1. Hugh Beaver the Managing Director of the Guinness Brewery in Dublin
   2. People would drink beer and argue about random facts “the tallest man was 13 ft” and Hugh wanted to have a definitive answer for these arguments
7. An Austrian brewery has a swimming pool full of beer
   1. You can go for a swim there
   2. Its called Schloss Starkenberger brewery and its in Tarrentz, Austria.
   3. It’s said to promote healthy skin
8. The melody of star spangled banner is based on an old english drinking song
   1. To Anacreon in Heaven
9. When a Danish physicist won the nobel prize he got a lifetime supply of beer
   1. Niels Bohr
   2. The carlsberg brewing company gave him a house and a direct pipeline of beer from the brewery
   3. It went in his house and he could drink as much as he wanted for life
10. A cloud near the constellation Aquila contains enough ethyl alcohol to fill 400 trillion trillion pints of beer
    1. Thats enough beer to supply the entire world for over a quadrillion years

Bonus:

1. Ancient Egyptians used beer for a wide variety of purposes, including as an enema and douche.
2. Beer is the third-most popular drink on Earth, after water and tea.
3. Beer is as old as human history. Beer brewing and drinking predate written language.