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Bizarre Beer Facts
    #5411587 - 03/17/06 07:32 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Just in time for St. Patrick's Day...

Studying the experimentally induced intoxicated behavior of
ants in 1888, naturalist John Lubbock noticed that the
insects that had too much to drink were picked up by nest
mates and carried home. Conversely, drunken strangers were
summarily tossed in a ditch.

The familiar Bass symbol, a red triangle, was registered in
1876 and is the world's oldest trademark.

Pennsylvania has had more breweries in its history than any
other state. In 1910 alone, 119 of the state's towns had at
least one licensed beermaker.

In their efforts to regulate beer quality, the ancient
Babylonians, who were among history's earliest brewers,
decreed that any commercial beermaker who sold unfit beer
would be drowned in his/her own libation.

Bottle caps, or "crowns," were invented in Baltimore in 1892
by William Painter. Painter proved his invention's worth
when he convinced a local brewer to ship a few hundred cases
of beer to South America and back and they returned without
a leak.

An 18-year study by the National Institute on Aging found
that 50-plus men who consumed a drink a day during middle
age scored significantly better on cognitive tests later in
life than did non-drinkers.

In ancient Babylon, women brewers also assumed the role of
temple priestesses. The goddess Siris was the patron of beer.

On October 17 of 1814, a rupture in a brewery tank contain-
ing 3,500 barrels of beer caused a flood of fatal proportions
in the London parish of St. Giles. The wave of beer swept
victims off their feet, dashed them against walls, and buried
them under debris. Two houses were demolished in the sea of
beer suddenly loosed upon town, and nine people lost their
lives in the flood of suds.

There are 19 different versions of Guinness.

According to a diary entry from a passenger on the Mayflower,
the pilgrims made their landing at Plymouth Rock, rather than
continue to their destination in Virginia, due to lack of beer.

The original text of the Reinheitsgebot only had three
ingredients: Barley, hops, and water. Yeast wasn't mentioned
for another 35 years.


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