Here are some fun beer facts to enjoy as you drink your next beer. Cheers!

• Germany serves beer ice cream in popsicle form. Its alcoholic content is less than that found in “classic” beer.

• In 1962, Iron City beer was the brand used to test-market the concept of tab opening aluminum cans. By 1970, over 90% of all beer cans were self-opening.

• Prohibition, beginning on January 16, 1920, lasted 13 years, 10 months, 19 days, 17 hours, and 32-1/2 minutes, and was rescinded on December 5, 1933, at 3:32 p.m.

• Centuries ago in England, pub visitors used a novel innovation that enabled them to get their beer served quickly. They used mugs with a whistle baked into the rim, the whistle being used to summon the barmaid. It has been suggested this practice gave birth to the phrase “wet your whistle.”

• A beer lover or enthusiast is called a cerevisaphile.

• During the European Middle Ages and the Renaissance, beer was often a nutritional necessity and was sometimes used in a medicinal setting. It could be flavored with almost anything, from the bark of fir trees to fresh eggs and thyme. Everyone drank beer, including children.
  President Theodore Roosevelt took more than 500 gallons of beer with him on an African safari. Must have been thirsty work.

• Most saloons were owned by the breweries by the 1900s. The bartenders earned $10 to $15 per week, with Sunday bringing in the most business.

• There is an Egyptian beer, called bousa, that is brewed from millet and has been a favorite drink of many for over 3,000 years. Modern Ethiopia has a version made from wheat. It has been hypothesized that this might have been the origin for the word “booze.” Other spellings used are boza, bouza, and booza. Take your pick.

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Some strange (and not so strange) beer laws by State.  Here are just a few tidbits to for your enjoyment; for a full listing, click here.

• In Wisconsin,an underage person is prohibited from knowingly possessing an alcoholic beverage unless accompanied by his or her parent, guardian or spouse who has attained the legal drinking age.

• In Faibanks, Arkansas, it is illegal to serve alcoholic beverages to moose.

• In Colorado, it is illegal to ride a horse while under the influence…It is also illegal; 1) for liquor stores to sell food and 2) for food stores to sell alcohol with an ABW greater than 3.2%. Beer with 3.2% ABW is called “low point beer.” Beer with higher alcohol levels can be purchased in liquor stores…The sale of alcohol is prohibited on Election Day….Ban on off-premises sale of alcohol on Sundays.

• In Hawaii, underage purchase of alcohol is prohibited except for law enforcement purposes, howeer, underage consumption of alcohol is not explicitly prohibited.

• In the state of Maine, it is illegal to possess an unlabeled, unregistered keg - punishment is a maximum fine of $500 and/or time in prison. It is illegal to destroy the label on a keg, punishable by a maximum fine of $1,000 or 6 months in prison.

Find your state’s beer law, here!