Beer is the most widely consumed and probably the oldest alcoholic beverage. People around the world drink beer, with the average American drinking 23 gallons of it per year. Here are some fun tidbits about beer published by List 25 that might surprise you.
Amsterdam pays alcoholics in beer.
For cleaning the city streets, local alcoholics get 10 Euros, half a packet of rolling tobacco and 5 beers as payment by a government-funded organization.
Beer is one of the world's oldest prepared beverages
Possibly dates back to the early Neolithic or 9500 BC.
The world´s strongest beer is Brewmeister´s "Snake Venom".
While regular beer usually have about 5% ABV, this Scottish beer has a whopping 67.5% ABV.
The oldest drinkable beer in the world was found in 2010, in an early 19th-century shipwreck discovered near Finland.
The beer was preserved in bottles by the cold water and it tasted very old, with some burnt notes and an acidic aftertaste.
Cenosillicaphobia is the fear of an empty beer glass.
Terrifying phobia indeed.
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