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- In Bavaria,
beer is not an alcoholic drink. It is legally defined as a
staple food.
- The worlds
strongest beer is 'Samuel Adams' Triple Bock, which has
reached 17% alcohol by volume. To obtain this level,
however, they had to use a champagne yeast.
- The
pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock because they ran out of
beer. Beer was a staple on long voyages for a variety of
reasons. After the long crossing of the ocean, supplies
were spent. They had planned to follow the east coast down
to find a strait but were out of beer at the first land
sighting and refused to go farther. The first structure
they built was a common house with a brewery inside it.
Back then even children drank beer.
- If you put
salted peanuts in a glass of beer the peanuts will dance
around.
- Two
scientists Schaefer and Zare observed that 107 bubbles in
a beer glass reached the top of the glass in 58 seconds,
that one bubble left the side of the glass where it formed
every .54 seconds and, the radius of the bubbles grew
4/100 of a millimeter per second.
- The
expression 'wet your whistle' came from England. Since the
pubs could get rather noisy, the makers of the ceramic
beer mugs began to bake whistles into the handles. So when
you wanted a drink, you would 'wet your whistle'.
- In the movie, The Shawshank
Redemption, when all of the prisoners are on the roof
drinking beer, notice the containers. They're drinking
bottles of beer. The movie was set in the 30s. Beer wasn't
bottled but instead canned in the 1930s.
- The medieval noble did not regard fruit and vegetables
as proper food, so meat was the staple at his table, and
was served in astonishing quantity. Nobles drank fine
wines, and lesser guests drank beer or cider.
- Stiegl beer (a beer from Salzburg, Austria) was first
made in the same year that Columbus discovered America
- Pilsner originated from the town of Plzen. Plzen was a
metropolis in West Bohemia located in the Czech Republic.
This town was founded by Kin Wenceslas II. Today Pilsner
not only denotes the native beer of this regions but any
fine light or pale lager.
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