Some Amazing Beer Facts

Somewhere around 1750 BC, the "Code of Hammurabi" was established in Babylonia. This law regulated one aspect of the operation of taverns and inns. Specifically, it ruled that any proprietors who served watered-down beer would be put to death. How? They would be drowned in their own poor quality beer!

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender used to yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. From where we get "mind your own P's and Q's".

In ancient Mesopotamia they had a goddess of beer. Her name is Siris and her priestesses brewed beer (possibly as part of a ritual??).

In 1963, Jim Whitaker became the first American to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. A can of Seattle's own Rainier Beer made the ascent with him.

Sources say Women have brewed more beer than men in the History of Beer. Sister Doris in Bavaria brews Mallersdorf lager

Guiness world record
Steven Petrosino drank 1 liter of beer (33 ounces) in 1.3 seconds on June 22, 1977 at the Gingerbreadman in Carlise, PA, a 56% improvement over the previous world record set several years earlier by Peter Dowdeswell of England (2.3 seconds for 1 liter).

Scholars who have studied the ancient text suggest that Jesus actually turned water into beer, not wine. There is a rising school of thought to pointing out that it is very likely, if not certain, that it was beer which was served at the last supper. The blood of Christ was beer! Furthermore, a historical and anthropological study has suggested that Noah's arc was actually a barge hauling beer on the Euphrates

It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the "honey month", or what we know today as the "honeymoon".
Historians have called beer the national drink of ancient Egypt. The pharoah appointed a "royal chief beer inspector" to protect its quality