Much beer is guzzled during
the holidays so here are a few beer facts that can be used to
impress the relatives.
After he won the Nobel Prize, Niels Bohr was given a perpetual
supply of beer piped into his house. (He lived next to a brewery).
The Code of Hammurabi decreed that bartenders who watered down beer
would be executed.
At the Annual Wife Carrying World Championships (in Finland), the
first prize is the wife's weight in beer.
The builders of the Great Pyramid of Giza were paid with a daily
ration of beer.
The top five states for beer consumption per capita: 1. North
Dakota, 2. New Hampshire, 3. Montana, 4. South Dakota, 5. Wisconsin.
Germany is home to a beer pipeline. Taps in Veltsin-Arena are
connected by a 5km (3 mile) tube of beer.
Thomas Jefferson wrote parts of the Declaration of Independence in a
Philadelphia tavern.
George Washington insisted his continental army be permitted a quart
of beer as part of their daily rations.
At spas in Europe, you can literally bathe in beer as a physical and
mental therapeutic treatment.
In the 1990s, the Beer Lovers Party ran candidates in Belarus and
Russia.
J.K. Rowling, of Harry Potter fame invented Quidditch in a pub.
Beer helped Joseph Priestly discover oxygen. He noticed gases rising
from the big vats of beer at a brewery and asked to do some
experiments.
A Buddhist temple in the Thai countryside was built with over a
million recycled beer bottles.
The moon has a crater named Beer.
Beer soup was a common breakfast in medieval Europe.
At the start of Bavarian Beer Week in Germany, an open-air beer
fountain dispenses free beer to the public.
In the 1980s, a beer-drinking goat was elected mayor of Lajitas, TX.