A few beer facts that you might not already know
Did you know: Zythology is the study of beer and beer making?
to find a few more things about beer you might not have known until now.
15 Amazing Facts about Beer
Here are some beer facts from the @mental_floss Twitter account
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After he won the Nobel Prize, Niels Bohr was given a perpetual supply of beer piped into his house.
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Coined in the early 1900s, the word "alcoholiday" means leisure time spent drinking.
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The builders of the Great Pyramid of Giza were paid with a daily ration of beer.
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Fried beer won Most Creative Fried Food at the 2010 Texas State Fair.
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Germany is home to a beer pipeline. Taps in Veltsin-Arena are connected by a 5km tube of beer.
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Cenosillicaphobia is the fear of an empty glass.
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Beer helped Joseph Priestly discover oxygen. He noticed gases rising from the big vats of beer at a brewery and asked to do some experiments.
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The moon has a crater named Beer.
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Beer soup was a common breakfast in medieval Europe.
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At the start of Bavarian Beer Week in Germany, an open-air beer fountain dispenses free beer to the public.
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In the 1980s, a beer-drinking goat was elected mayor of Lajitas, TX.
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The oldest known recipe for beer is over 4,000 years old, made by Sumerians.
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Beer & Marijuana are cousins: beer's hops are in the same family of flowering plants as marijuana.
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In the Middle Ages beer was consumed more than water as the alcohol made it safer.
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The strongest beer in the world has a 67.5% alcohol content.