15 Surprising Facts About Beer

15 Surprising Facts About Beer

1. Did You Know That Your Beer Could Have Been Spoiled?

Exposure to light will make your cold beer go bad.

2. Did You Know That Your Beer May Be Related To Marijuana?

Beer and marijuana are more closely related than you thought. Hop a main ingredient of beer, falls in the same family of flowering plants as its cousin, marijuana.

3. Beer & Cardiac Disease

It is said that beer helps prevent cardiac disease and cognitive decline.

4. Do You Have Cenosillicaphobia Disease?

“Cenosillicaphobia”, it is the fear of an empty beer glass.

5. Strongest Beer

The strongest beer in the world has a 67.5% alcohol content.

6. Guess Who Created Beer

The oldest known recipe for beer is over 4,000 years old and was created by the Sumerians (Moorish People).

7. Beer Made Of Bananas

There is a beer that is brewed from bananas in Africa.

8. Hangover Free Beer

Australian scientists have created a hydrating, hangover-free beer.

9. Beer Flavored Ice Cream

There are beer-flavored ice creams with enough alcohol in them to leave you a little drunk.

10. The Great Beer Protest

Australia’s largest “ever” petition that was submitted to Parliament in the year 2000, had 792,985 signatures. What was the initiative? To protest the rising price of beer.

11. Alcohol In Outer Space

In outer space, there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to fill 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.

12. Drowned In Beer

The ancient Babylonians were the first to brew. In fact, they took their beer so seriously, if you brewed a bad batch your punishment was to be drowned in it.

13. Beer In Valhalla

Vikings believed that a giant goat whose udders provided an endless supply of beer was waiting for them in Valhalla (viking heaven).

14. History Changed Because The Pilgrims Ran Out Of Beer

Pilgrims on the Mayflower stopped at Plymouth Rock rather than continuing on to Virginia because they ran out of beer.

15. Roosevelt Recommended Beer To All Americans

Prohibition in the U.S. lasted 13 years, 10 months, 19 days, 17 hours, 32.5 minutes. Afterwards, President Roosevelt said: "What America needs now is a drink."