In Bruges, Belgium, there is an underground pipeline that runs 2 miles to transfer beer from a brewery to the bottling plant.
100 Mind-Blowing Beer Facts
Ginger beer is brewed and fermented with ginger, while ginger ale is merely carbonated water flavoured with ginger.
Employees at MillerCoors get three free cases of beer each month, in addition to having access to beer and cider on location after a work day.
Rick Astley has his brand of beer. It was a collaboration between him and the Danish microbrewery Mikkeller; it’s a red lager with “a hint of ginger”.
Hanson made a beer called “Mmmhops.” They give away a free song with every bottle.
By using big data, Wal-Mart determined that people stock up the most on strawberry Pop-Tarts and beer before a hurricane.
Dartmouth’s unofficial mascot is a beer keg called “Keggy the Keg.” Created in 2003, it was initially controversial but is now part of the Dartmouth culture.
Beer is the most popular alcoholic drink in the world. In 2016, nearly 50 billion gallons of beer was consumed worldwide.
Some hospitals have beer. No, we doubt you can ask for a pint in the E.R., but some hospitals do keep a supply of beer for alcoholic patients. This is to avoid possible complications from withdrawals.
Beer was a soft drink in Russia. Before 2011, any drink in Russia with less than 10% alcohol content was legally classified as a soft drink.
There’s a brewery in Japan that makes beer from elephant poop. The brewery, Sankt Gallen, produces a beer called Un Kono Kuro, made with coffee beans that have passed through an elephant.
One of the world’s oldest-known recipes is for beer. Archaeologists uncovered a 5,000-year-old brewery in China with ancient “beer-making tool kits” in underground rooms dating back to 3400 and 2900 B.C.
The Milky Way smells of rum, raspberries and booze. In 2009, astronomers exploring a giant cloud of gas and dust at the centre of the Milky Way made a surprise discovery – the cloud was packed full of a chemical known as ethyl formate, which has a couple of intriguing properties: it is responsible for giving raspberries their flavour, and has the smell of rum. Another nearby region is also notable as it’s full of ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, the type we use to make alcoholic beverages. It contains enough alcohol to supply every person on the planet with 300,000 pints of beer per day for the next billion years! If bottled at the source, the proof for this beer would be very low, with an alcohol content of less than 1%, but as the cloud also contains plenty of other nasty chemicals, among them carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide, it would still leave you with quite a headache the next morning.
Russia didn’t consider beer to be alcohol until 2011. It was previously classified as a soft drink.
The Internet was invented in a beer garden.
Although no longer connected to the beer company, Guinness World Records was founded by the manageing director of Guinness Brewery in the 1950s.
There is an accident called London’s Beer Flood which occurred in London in 1814. What happened was that a 22-foot tall wooden vat of fermenting beer burst, killing 8 people and injuring several others.