Keep these in mind if you happen to imbibe a few beers this weekend
Facts
According to a 10th century Chinese imperial edict, entrance to heaven requires the use of alcohol in moderation.
In medieval Scotland, death was the punishment for those caught adulterating any alcoholic beverage.
Bavaria is home to more than a sixth of the world’s breweries. Not surprisingly, Bavarians drink almost 48 gallons of beer per capita. In contract, US beer consumption is around 22.1 gallons per person.
In ancient Greece, the word “symposium” originally meant a number of men getting together for an evening of drink and good conversation.
Among beer drinkers over the age of 21, more beer is imbibed than tea, powdered drinks, and juice combined. At 22.1 gallons per person, the figure for beer is just under that of milk, at 24.2 gallons per capita.
A strange thing happened on the way to the breakup of Czechoslovakia in 1993. One of the its states, now the independent Czech Republic, became the country with the highest per capita beer consumption in the world (42.1 gallons in 1998), displacing the perennial camp, Germany.
Quotes
“Most people hate the taste of beer- to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.” Winston Churchill.
“He was a wise man who invented beer.” Plato
“When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.” Henny Youngman
“Good beer makes its own friends.” Charles Jerome Koch, Jim Koch’s great-grandfather.
“Whoever makes poor beer in transferred to the dung hill.” City Ordnance of Danzig, Poland, around 1000 A.D.
“There is nothing worse than a closed pub.” Judy Ashworth, CA alehouse pioneer.
“It was as natural as eating and to me as necessary, and I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking beer.” Ernest Hemingway
“Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy.” Benjamin Franklin
“I’m allergic to grass. Hey, it could to worse- I could be allergic to beer.” Golfer Greg Norman
“Our liver is happy, our heart is joyful. May Ninkasi live together with you.” From “Hymn to Ninkasi,” the Sumerian goddess of beer (1800 b.c.)
“I recommend bread, meat, vegetables and beer.” Sophocles
“The selling of bad beer is a crime about Christian love.” 13th century city ordnance from Augsburg, Germany
“No soldier can properly fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer.” John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
“For any country to be a country, you have to have an air force, a football team and a beer. You can get by without the air force and the football team, but you have to have a beer.” Frank Zappa
“…A moderate use of beer will aid digestion, quicken the powers of life, and give elasticity to the body and mind” US Department of Agriculture, 1866
