Facts About Beer – 25 Fun Beer Facts To WOW You!

Are you curious to learn some weird and wonderful facts about beer?

If so, excellent! You are in exactly the right place my friend…

It’s time to chat about beer facts.

Let’s dive right in…

Facts about Beer

1 – Beer is the third most popular drink in the world, after water and tea.

2 – The four basic ingredients of beer are water, yeast, malted barley and hops.

3 – Guinness is considered to be one of the best beers on earth because it’s brewed with a lot more malt than other beers.

4 – The average American drinks about 24 gallons of beer per year (or 5 cans every week).

5 – In ancient Egypt, beer was used as an offering to the gods and for ceremonial purposes.

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6 – The word “beer” comes from the Latin word “bibere” which means to drink alcohol.

7 – Beer has been around for over 6,000 years.

8 – It was used as an analgesic in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.

9 – In the Middle Ages, it became popular with people of all classes because water could be dangerous to drink.

10 – Beer was taxed less than wine or spirits during the medieval age because it was consumed by everyone.

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11 – There are more than 100 different types/styles of beer in the world – 73 different ales, 25 different lagers and more hybrid styles. But there are thousands of brands of beer brewed all around the world.

12 – Beer is the oldest recorded recipe in the world. It was documented by Ancient Egyptians on papyrus scrolls around 5000BC.

13 – The first known brewery was built in ancient Babylon, around 1800 BC.

14 – There are 140 calories in a 330ml bottle of beer.

15 – Beer is made by two major types of yeast – top-fermenting and bottom-fermenting.

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16 – There are many different types of beer that vary in color, alcohol content, flavor, and bitterness.

17 – In 1814, President James Madison signed into law an excise tax on all domestically produced beers.

18 – In 1368, King Edward III imposed a tax on ale – the predecessor to beer – which led to riots among angry citizens.

19 – In ancient Egypt, beer was considered one of the basic food groups full of nutrients (so not an intoxicant) and it was consumed daily by everyone, including children.

20 – The alcohol content in beer varies from between 3% to 12%.

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21 – In USA alone there are 8764 craft breweries.

22 – It’s made from four ingredients – malted barley, hops, yeast and water. The process starts with steeping grains in hot water to extract sugars for fermenting into alcohol.

After that, it’s boiled with hops before being cooled and added to a fermentation vessel containing yeast. Fermentation produces carbon dioxide which makes the bubbles you see when you open a bottle or can of beer.

23 – The most popular beers in USA include: Guinness, Heineken, Corona Extra, Samuel Adams, Budweiser, Blue Moon and Coors.

24 – Beer has been used as currency, or exchanged for goods and services.

25 – In ancient times, women were often brewers – they would brew up to 10 gallons at a time using their own recipes from home-grown grains such as barley and wheat.

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