Today is National Beer Day! To celebrate, we put together a list of fun beer facts for you to enjoy. Have any other interesting facts about beer to include? Share them with us in the comments!
- The first beer bottle was sold in 1850.
- The oldest known beer recipe is over 4,000 years old and was made by the Sumerians.
- A beer expert is called a Cicerone.
- Brown bottles help keep beer fresh because it blocks light from hitting the beer.
- The average American consumes 23 gallons of beer in a year.
- The time between a beer’s first pour and the top-up is known as the surge and settle.
- Storing beer upright reduces the chance of oxidation and contamination from the cap.
- In 1814, a beer wave of 388,000 gallons flooded London and destroyed two homes after a vat ruptured.
- Cenosillicaphopia is the fear of an empty glass.
- It is believed that the pilgrims stopped at Plymouth Rock instead of continuing to Virginia because they ran out of beer.
