beer, n.Trivia

In Japan, beer is the beverage of choice for toasts and friendly meetings

Beer cans used to be 40% thicker and way stronger, which is why we see people crushing beer cans as a display of strength in older movies

It takes 20 gallons of water to create one pint of beer.

Beer is older than bread

Until 1956, French schools were allowed to serve half a liter of wine or beer to students under 14.

IPAs are named for a kind of beer heavily hopped and aged to withstand the 6 month trip from Great Britain to the British colonies in "India".

Beer was a gift commonly given to ancient Egyptian Pharaohs.

Beer and vaginas have almost the same acidity levels with an average pH of 4.5.

Beer hops naturally produce an acid that can kill a parasitic mite known to destroy entire colonies of honey bees

Aristotle claimed that drinkers of wine and other intoxicants fall in random directions, but beer drinkers always fall on their back.

Iceland went through a prohibition beginning in 1915 and ending in 1989 after a referendum vote by the population.

Beer can get quite strong --- the strongest to date is called Snake Venom and comes in at 67.5% ABV

In Japan, beer cans have braille text on them so blind people do not mistake them for soft drinks

Beer was the first alcoholic beverage known to civilization:

Marijuana and Hops are of the same biological family, Cannabinaceae, which is why some beers remind of cannabis.

Microbiologist Raul Cano, whose work helped inspire Jurassic Park, successfully revived yeast that had been trapped in amber for 25 million years. He then used the ancient yeast to make beer.

Beer may have helped create civilization.