Beer is the world’s most widely consumed alcoholic beverage and the third-most popular drink overall (after water and tea). People all over the world just love beer. An average American consumes 23 gallons of the beverage a year. But do you know what nation has the highest beer consumption per head? Or what is the strongest beer in the world? To find out, check out these 15 little known beer facts.
15 Interesting Beer Facts That Will Leave You Tipsy
By
Editorial Staff in
Amazing
On 21st December 2014
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#1
American president George Washington had his own brewhouse on the grounds of Mount Vernon.
#2
Beer strengthens bones. It is rich in silicon that increases calcium deposits and minerals for bone tissue.
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#3
Beer and marijuana have more in common than you would think. Beer's hops are in the same family of flowering plants as marijuana.
#4
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.
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#5
At any given time, 0.7% of the world population is drunk. It means 50 million people are drunk right now. Beer is obviously the main contributor to the drunkenness.
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#6
The world's largest beer festival is Oktoberfest. Held annually in Munich, Germany, it is a 16-day funfair running from late September to the first weekend in October with more than 6 million people from around the world attending the event every year.
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#7
The first professional brewers were all women called brewsters. The women had to be very beautiful to be able to become brewsters.
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#8
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 (unsurprisingly), with some burnt notes and an acidic aftertaste.
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#9
Cenosillicaphobia is the fear of an empty beer glass. Terrifying phobia indeed.
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#10
Ancient Babylonians were so serious about brewing beer that if anyone brewed a bad batch, they would drown him in it as a punishment.
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#11
Nowadays, there are about 400 types of beer in the world. Belgium is the country that has the most individual beer brands.
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#12
Old Vikings believed that in their heaven called Valhalla, there is a giant goat whose udders provided unlimited supply of beer.
#13
Experimenting with beer has taken many forms. John Lubbock, an 18th-century English biologist, studied the behavior of beer on drunken ants.
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#14
The world´s most expensive beer is Belgian's "Vielle Bon Secours". One bottle costs around 1000 American dollars.
#15
The most beer-drinking country in the world is the Czech Republic. With an incredible per capita beer consumption of almost 40 gallons a year, the Czechs are way out in front in the beer drinking world league table.
