Beer Facts

The Hymn to Ninkasi, a 3,900-year-old Sumerian poem, contains the oldest known beer recipe in history.

For beer commercials, they add liquid detergent to the beer to make it foam more.

The Guinness Book of Records was originally published by Guinness Breweries as a reference for settling bar arguments.

Malaysians protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer.

The red triangle of Bass Brewery is the first registered trademark in the United Kingdom!

In 1955, Bob Hawke was immortalized by the Guinness Book of Records for chugging 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds while at Oxford University.

According to news reports, a feral pig in Australia drank 18 cans of beer, brawled with a cow, and then passed out under a tree.

Ancient Egypt had at least 17 documented types of beer by 2400 B.C., including thick, sweet, dark, and date beers.

Budweiser beer is named after a town in the Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia).

In 2011, Russia acknowledged beer as an alcoholic beverage. Before then, any drink under 10% volume was considered a soft drink.

Physicist Niels Bohr was given a house by the Carlsberg Foundation as Denmark's most honored scientist, located next to the Carlsberg brewery. The house came with free beer on tap, delivered directly from the brewery next door.

The top sales at Walmart as a storm approaches are Pop-Tarts and beer.

There's a wife-carrying championship that takes place in Finland every year where the winner receives his wife's weight in beer.

In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!

Noodles, the guitarist for The Offspring, was the janitor for the school the band went to. He was allowed into the band because he was old enough to buy the band alcohol.

Kid Rock took a pay cut that cost him around $50,000 to $100,000 per night during his tour, just to keep ticket prices at $20 and a 12 oz beer at $4.

As part of an advertising campaign, Molson, a Canadian beer company, strategically placed 'beer fridges' around Europe that only Canadian passports could unlock.

Australian researchers developed a 'hangover-free' beer by adding electrolytes, which helps the body rehydrate more effectively than regular beer after physical activity.

Oktoberfest started off as a wedding reception for a Prince in Bavaria in 1810, and the newlyweds enjoyed it so much, they suggested making it an annual event.

In 1814, a giant vat of beer ruptured at a London brewery, unleashing 135,000 gallons of porter through the streets. It demolished two homes, collapsed a pub wall, and killed eight people. The brewery went to court. The jury ruled it an Act of God. Nobody paid a penny.