10 Facts to Memorize About Beer
Gone are the days when you could just pick up a rack of natty and think that would make you cool. The fact is, you simply can’t afford to appear ignorant about the small-batch, locally brewed craft ales you’re consuming. That’s why we compiled this list of essential facts every beer drinker needs to know.
1. “Lager”, “pilsner”, “ale”, and, ”stout” are all just synonyms for beer. A “brewski” however, is something else entirely.
2. One of the world’s oldest prepared beverages, beer was recorded in the written history of ancient Iraq and ancient Egypt, although it was referred to at the time as “fun-water”.
3. Some people are such loser beer snobs that they know that “Mashing” is the process by which the wort is prepared by mixing barley with hot water, unironically.
4. Beer before more beer, beer. Beer before beer, beeeeeeer.
5. If you say “oktoberfest” three times into a mirror, a St. Pauli girl will appear.
6. Each year hundreds of clydesdales drown while attempting the perilous voyage to deliver Budweiser to Hawaii.
7. Benjamin Franklin once said “beer is proof that God loves those of us not prone to crippling addiction and wants us to either be happy or angry, depending on the night.”
8. West of the Mississippi River, “Beirut” is referred to as “beer pong”, whereas east of the Mississippi river, it is still referred to as “beer pong”.
9. The term “balls back” was originally coined around the year 1200 BC by Assyrian prisoners of war, who according to tradition, would have their severed testicles returned if they could make back-to-back shots against their captors.
10. The quality of a beer depends on the amount of horse urine it contains, though depending on one’s taste for horse urine, the correlation can run in either direction.
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