Number 25 Amsterdam pays alcoholics in beer
for cleaning the city street local alcoholics get 10 euros
half a packet of rolling tobacco and five beers as payment by a government funded
organization number 24 Stephen Petrosino of New Cumberland Pennsylvania
downed one liter of beer or 33 ounces
in a chilly 1.3 seconds in 1977
which made him a world beer chugging champion according to the Guinness
Book of World Records. Number twenty-three
beer is one of the world's oldest prepared beverages
possibly dating back to the early Neolithic period or
9500 BC. Number 22
in 1814 almost 400,000 gallons of beer flooded several streets in london
after a huge vat ruptured in the parish of St. Giles.
Number 21 the world's strongest beer
is Brewmeister's Snake Venom. While regular beer is usually about 5 percent
ABV
this Scottish killer has a stomach burning 67.5 percent
ABV that's a lot of ABV
Number twenty Stamford researchers found that beer bubbles
create a gravity-defying loop bubbles head up in the center where
frictional drag from the glass is less and down
on the outside as the top gets crowded. Number nineteen
the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids under the influence
according to Patrick McGovern and archaeologist from the University of
Pennsylvania
workers at Giza received about four liters of beer a day.
Number eighteen beer prevents kidney stones
a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology
estimated that a bottle of beer consumed everyday reduces the risk by forty percent
number seventeen beer commercials in the US
aren't really allowed to show people actually drinking the beer
it's a US law that people cannot actually be shown consuming an alcoholic
beverage on television
go figure. Number sixteen the study of beer
and beer making even has an official scientific name
Zythology it's derived from the Greek word Zythos (beer)
and logos (study). Number fifteen
the most beer drinking country in the world is the Czech Republic with an
incredible per capita beer consumption
of almost forty gallons a year the Czechs are way out in front of the beer-drinking
world league table. Number fourteen the world's most expensive beer
is Belgium's "Vielle Bon Secours“ oh boy
I can only imagine the comments on that pronounciation, one bottle costs around
1,000 American dollars
Number thirteen experimenting with beer has taken many forms
John Lubbock an eighteenth-century English biologist
studied the behavior of beer on ants. Number 12, Vikings believed that in
their heaven called Valhalla
there's a giant goat whose udders provided
unlimited supply of beer. Number eleven
nowadays they'e about 400 types of beer in the world
Belgium is the country that has the most individual beer brands
number ten ancient Babylonians were so serious about brewing beer
that if anyone brewed a bad batch they would drown him...
in it... as a punishment. Number nine
Cenosillicaphobiaphobia is the fear of an empty beer glass
terrifying phobia indeed. Number eight
the oldest drinkable beer in the world was found in 2010
in an early 19th century shipwreck discovered near Finland
the beer was preserved in bottles by the cold abyss
and it tasted very old. Un-surprisingly,
with some burt notes and an acidic aftertaste.
Who's the crazy person that actually tasted this thing?
Number seven, the first professional brewers were all-women
called Brewster's.The women had to be very beautiful to be able to become
Brewesters
Number six, the world's largest beer festival
is Oktoberfest held annually in Munich Germany it is a 16-day
fun fair running from late Sept to the first weekend in October
with more than six million people from all around the world
attending the event every single year. Number five
at any given time 0.7 percent of the world population is drunk.
It mean to 50 million people are drunk
right now. Beer is obviously the main contributor to the drunkenness.
Number four, the foamy head is a very important part of the beer
it is formed by a complex carbon dioxide reaction and can say a lot
about the quality of the beer. If the head is missing it can mean that your
beer is flat and bland-tasting
Number three, beer and marijuana
have more in common than you would think. Beer's hops are in the same family of
flowering plants
as marijuana. Number two
Beer strengthens bones. It is rich is silicon that increases the calcium
deposits and minerals
for bone tissue. And number one, American president George Washington
had his own brew house on the grounds of Mount Vernon.
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