Smite A. Hippie

One of my favorite things in the world is beer, and I’m not talking about Coors Light here, people. I mean good beer; from local microbrews, to Guinness, to Schneider’s Aventinus (which I’m currently consuming as I write this.)

I present to you – Ten cool beer facts:

• Way back in the 1900’s, nearly all saloons were under the ownership of the brewery that made the beer served there and the weekly earnings of the bartenders were $10-$15.
• When on a Safari in Africa, President Theodore Roosevelt carried with him no less than 500 gallons of beer.
• The expression “Rule of Thumb” actually came from brewers, who used to insert their thumb into the mix during the beer making process to find out when the temperature was just right for the yeast to be added.
• The expression “Wet Your Whistle” in fact can be traced to a fascinating tale from England. It appears that whistles were in fact baked into the edge of beer mugs in order to enable beer drinkers get the waiter’s attention to refill their mugs.
• The term “cerevisaphile” refers to any body that enjoys beer.
• The expression “Mind Your P’s & Q’s” comes from the time when ale was ordered in English bars, the order was taken in pints or quarts. When someone became slightly drunk the bartender would holler at that person to mind his pints & quarts.
• In Japan, you will see beer being sold at train stations, in vending machines, and also by street vendors.
• The recipe for making beer is the oldest one ever to be written.
• The actors Bruce Willis, Bill Cosby, Sandra Bullock, Tom Arnold, and Chevy Chase are some of the stars that began their careers serving beer as bartenders.
• Next to tea, beer is the second most well liked beverage in the world, enjoyed by millions.

h/t – Beer Satori

Perfect timing for a playoff Sunday.  Not the team I was hoping would be there, mind you, but hey… just another excuse to drink a beer!

Crack open a cold one, guys… it’s a day of celebration!!  Yes indeed, 75 years ago today a New Jersey brewing company churned out the world’s first beer can in 1935.  Read all about it here…

A Toast to the Beer Can: Happy 75th Birthday

Good news for us men folk! Beer apparently helps reduce the risk of prostate cancer…

Beer-drinking men may be reducing their chances of developing prostate cancer with every pint, tests by scientists have revealed.

Experiments have shown that xanthohumol, a compund derived from the hops in beer, blocks a chemical reaction that can lead to the development of cancer.

The disease is usually treated with drugs that act in a similar way.

“We hope that one day we can demonstrate that xanthohumol prevents prostate cancerdevelopment, first in animal models and then in humans, but we are just at the beginning,” said study leader, Dr. Clarissa Gerhausa, from the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg.

Xanthohumol is a powerful antioxidant, known to have anti-cancer properties. It is also found in fruits and spices.

It was previously suggested that the compound could reduce the chances of females getting breast cancer.

Click here to read more on this story from Sky News.