Interesting and funny beer facts from all over the world!
The Strongest beer in the world contains almost 70% alcohol. It is called The Snake Venom, brewed by Brewmeister in the UK
There´s a beer made of barley that grew in Space. Sapporo´s Space Barley beer is one of the most expensive beers you can buy.
In 2010 the oldest drinkable beer in the world was found in a shipwreck that sunk in the early 19th-century shipwreck discovered near Finland.
Babylonians punished their beer brewes for a failed batch by drowning them in the batch. Don´t mess with Babylonians!
Dock Street Brewing in Philadelphia brews an American Pale Stout with an unusual ingredient. The so called Dock Street Walker is brewed with roasted goat brains. (I´d love to try that)
Some beer styles (e.g. Lambic) use spontaneous fermentation. No yeast is added. Basicially the brewes don´t close the fermenters and just wait for wild yeast out of the air to settle and start fermenting. It can take up to months until this happens.
Beer is the world’s top consumed alcoholic beverage and the third-most overall, after water and tea.
The nation with the highest beer consumption per capita is the Czech Republic. Almost 150 liters consumes each Czech per year. na zdravi!
The earliest chemical evidence of barley beer was found in Iran and dates to circa 3500–3100 BC.
A bottle of Samuel Allsopp’s Artic Ale from 1852 was sold on ebay for over 500.000 USD in 2007. It was brewed in a way to withstand arctic temperatures for Sir Edward Belcher’s Artic Expedition in 1852. The bottle was still wax sealed and preserved over all these years.
A legend of Andre the Giant, a known figure in the wresting scene, says that once he drank 156 beers in one sitting that lasted 6 hours.
The oldest operating brewery in the world is Weihenstephan, a Benedictine Abbey in Bavaria Germany that was established in AD 725.