People, all around the world, just love beer because it’s the world’s most commonly consumed alcoholic beverage and the third-most popular drink after tea and water. But do you know which one is the strongest beer in the world? Or which city pays alcoholics in beer to clean the street?
To find out, check out these 9 less known interesting beer facts.
- At any given time, 0.7% of the world is drunk. So, 50 million people are drunk right now. Main contributor to the drunkenness is beer!
2. The world’s strongest beer is Brewmeister’s “Snake Venom” which contains the highest amount of alcohol content and costs 85$.
While a regular beer contains 5% alcohol, this Scottish beer contains a stomach-burning 67.5% alcohol.
3. 162,719 pints of Guinness beer are wasted each year due to Mustache.
4. At the Wife carrying World Championships in Finland, first prize is the wife’s weight in Beer!
5. The world’s longest hangover lasted 4 weeks after a Scotsman consumed 60 pints of beer in the space of four days, causing him a severe headache that had been persistent for four weeks!
Now that put your ‘crazy night-out’ to shame, doesn’t it?
6. In France, Germany, Austria, Spain and the Netherlands, they serve beer in McDonald’s!
7. In Argentina, political parties have their own brands of beer.
8. There are about 400 types of beer in the world. Belgium is the country that has the most individual beer brands.
9. Until 2013, beer was not considered an alcoholic beverage in Russia. Anything containing less than 10% alcohol was considered a foodstuff!
10. Amsterdam pays alcoholics in beer! For cleaning the streets, alcoholics get half a packet of rolling tobacco, 10 Euros, and 5 beers as payment of their work!
11. Cenosillicaphobia is the fear of an empty beer glass.
If seeing an empty beer glass causes you to shiver, you probably have Cenosillicaphobia. Fortunately, its cure is as close as the nearest can or beer bottle.
If you know any other interesting beer fact that we missed out, do comment down below and share your knowledge with us!!!