"Here and There" by Clay Moore and Jay Silvers Beers contain a surprising variety of proteins: at least 62, forty of which come from yeast. These proteins are key in supporting beer’s foamy head. Tenenit, the Egyptian deity of beer, was female, as was the Zulu beer goddess Mbaba Mwana Waresa. Among the Wari people of ancient Peru, elite women brewed the beer. Centuries later, women dominated the European brewing scene, Forty-six percent of US Midwesterners said beer was their favorite drink, compared with 42 % of Easterners, 40 % of Westerners and 37 % of Southerners. George Washington's favorite beer style was Porter. He had an ample supply of it at Mount Vernon, his Virginia estate, and in the White House. Abraham Lincoln held a liquor license and operated several taverns MA group of creative scientists in Australia have successfully created an article of clothing made from the bacterial fermentation of beer. We have no idea why. "Human beings are at their best in bars drinking beer." Alec Waugh Historians credit monks with many brewing innovations including the introduction of hops, including the idea of lagering, or cold storing, beer to improve flavor. . Did you hear about the bartender in a Pennsylvania coal town who got arrested for selling beer to a minor? Ah, neither did we.. Almost all early American beers were based on the English-style ales the colonists were familiar with. That began to change, though, in the mid-1800s as wave after wave of new immigrants came from Northern and Central Europe, bringing with them a taste for a new style of beer had taken hold on the Continent: Pilsner Tough question about Pilsner: Compared to a Bohemian (Czech) Pilsner, A. German Pilsner will usually be: A. lighter bodied; B have a darker color; C have a. one percenter higher ABV; D. none of these; e. all of these. answer: A Have you ever enjoyed imagined a world with no hypothetical situations? British men have been found twice as likely to know the price of their beer as their partner's bra size. A poll found that 77% of males knew how much their beer costs but only 38% knew the correct size of their mate's bra. If you beer is totally tasteless and pale check your glass- it might be empty. Although “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” is considered to be the shortest sentence that includes all the letters of the alphabet, alcohol lovers came up with one of their own “Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs". The word “toast,” which means wishing good health originated in ancient Rome as a piece of toasted bread was literally dropped into a glass of wine. . Who knows, It might be true. An ancient Egyptian cure for hemorrhoids was drinking lots of beer. That will also probably work for most of what "ales" you. "I distrust a man who says 'when." If he's got to be careful not to drink too much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does." Sidney Greenstreet A nearby town just mandated that all the bars there have to close at two in the morning and a lot of people are upset about it. We say they ought to close'em. Anybody that cant get drunk by two AM isn't really trying. What is the oldest operating brewery in the world? Answer: Weinhenstephan Which is the oldest operating brewery in the US? Answer: Yuengling. What is the most used ingredient in IPAs? Answer: Water (we bet you said hops) A carton of yogurt walks into a bar and orders a beer. The bartender says "we don't serve your kind in here". The yogurt says back, "why not, I'm a cultured individual." ================ "You can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning." Clay and Jay See you next month! |
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