Top Unkown and Interesting facts about BEER !

• The only drinks that are more widely consumed worldwide than beer are water and tea.
• In 1814 London suffered the Great Beer Flood when about 388,000 gallons of beer flooded the streets around Tottenham Court Road after vats in a brewery ruptured.
• At least eight people drowned but a judge and jury ruled the beer flood was an Act of God.
• The world’s most expensive beer is Belgium’s La Vieille Bon Secours ale which costs £700 a bottle.

• In Medieval Britain more beer was drunk than water as the alcohol made it safer.
• People in the Czech Republic drink more beer than anywhere else, an average amount of 143 litres per head.
• The figure for the UK is less than half that at only 67 litres per head.
• The world’s largest beer mat was made in 2002 by Carlsberg in Denmark and measured 49.21ft (15 metres) in diameter.
• The first brewers of beer were probably the Sumerians around 10,000BC.
• Ninkasi, the Sumerian goddess of alcohol and beer, was reputedly “born of fresh sparkling water”. 

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