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Beer Trivia

It was the accepted practice in Babylonia 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".

Before thermometers were invented, brewers would dip a thumb or finger into the mix to find the right temperature for adding yeast. Too cold, and the yeast wouldn't grow. Too hot, and the yeast would die. This thumb in the beer is where we get the phrase "rule of thumb".

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

Beer was the reason the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. It's clear from the Mayflower's log that the crew didn't want to waste beer looking for a better site. The log goes on to state that the passengers "were hasted ashore and made to drink water that the seamen might have the more beer".

After consuming a bucket or two of vibrant brew they called aul, or ale, the Vikings would head fearlessly into battle often without armor or even shirts. In fact, the term "berserk" means "bare shirt" in Norse, and eventually took on the meaning of their wild battles.

In 1740 Admiral Vernon of the British fleet decided to water down the navy's rum. Needless to say, the sailors weren't too pleased and called Admiral Vernon, Old Grog, after the stiff wool grogram coats he wore. The term "grog" soon began to mean the watered down drink itself. When you were drunk on this grog, you were "groggy", a word still in use today.

Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle", is the phrase inspired by this practice.

Beer Quotes

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer 
and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a
football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very 
least you need a beer.
       --Frank Zappa

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will 
teach you to keep your mouth shut.
       --Ernest Hemmingway

Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than 
alcohol has taken out of me.
       --Winston Churchill

He was a wise man who invented beer.
       --Plato

Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time.
       --Catherine  Zandonella

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency 
to thank her.
       --W.C. Fields

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.
       --Lady Astor to Winston Churchill
Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.
       --His reply

If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us 
stomachs.
       --David Daye

Work is the curse of the drinking class.
       --Oscar Wilde

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
       --Henny Youngman

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
       --Benjamin Franklin

If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I 
bet it makes beer shoot out your nose.
       --Deep Thought, Jack Handy

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of 
mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine 
invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
       --Dave Barry

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks 
behind.
       --Humphrey Bogart

Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine.
       --David Moulton

People who drink light "beer" don't like the taste of beer; they 
just like to pee a lot.
       --Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI
     
Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.
       --Kaiser Wilhelm

I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer.
       --Homer Simpson

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen 
and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a 
vital ingredient in beer.
       --Dave Barry

I drink to make other people interesting.
       --George Jean Nathan

They who drink beer will think beer.
       --Washington Irving

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time 
with his fools.
       --For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
       --Dean Martin

All right, brain, I don't like you and you don't like me - so 
let's just do this and I'll get back to killing you with beer.
       --Homer Simpson